The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
This mystery by Agatha Christie is considered one of her best, a true masterpiece, and it is personally one of my favorite of her books. First published in 1926, the story begins revolves around her celebrated detective Hercule Poirot as retires to the countryside to grow vegetable marrows.
However his retirement is cut short when it’s back to business as usual for Poirot when his neighbour and new found friend Dr. Sheppard is involved in a murder. The latter''s sister Caroline, a spinster, provides all the local gossip, and Poirot must race against time to prevent a desperate murderer from killing the next victim.
It is a classic Agatha Christie novel and keeps reader you guessing till the very end. With, misdirection, plot twists and an ending you will never see coming the book is definitely a must read.
As the story begins, we are introduced to Dr James Sheppard, an older man who lives together with his sister Caroline in King's Abbot, a small village serving as a great doctor there and when somebody dies he is responsible for the analysis. A Mrs Ferras dies and Dr Sheppard goes over to examine the body.
After his analysis he returns home again to talk about the death with his sister who pretends to know everything about the death. She believes Mrs Ferras had killed herself because she had killed her husband last year. That day Dr Sheppard meets Roger Ackroyd, the man whose murder is the main plot of the story, and Roger invites Dr Sheppard to his house in the evening telling Dr Sheppard that it is very important.
That evening, Roger tells James that Ralph Paton, his nephew, is in London, but the doctor had seen Ralph this afternoon. When Roger hears this and becomes upset. The next morning, Caroline tells her brother that she had seen Ralph Paton with Flora Ackroyd. They had been walking together and Dr Sheppard goes to see. A new character is introduced into the story. Hercule Poirot, the new neighbour, and also a
This mystery by Agatha Christie is considered one of her best, a true masterpiece, and it is personally one of my favorite of her books. First published in 1926, the story begins revolves around her celebrated detective Hercule Poirot as retires to the countryside to grow vegetable marrows.
However his retirement is cut short when it’s back to business as usual for Poirot when his neighbour and new found friend Dr. Sheppard is involved in a murder. The latter''s sister Caroline, a spinster, provides all the local gossip, and Poirot must race against time to prevent a desperate murderer from killing the next victim.
It is a classic Agatha Christie novel and keeps reader you guessing till the very end. With, misdirection, plot twists and an ending you will never see coming the book is definitely a must read.
As the story begins, we are introduced to Dr James Sheppard, an older man who lives together with his sister Caroline in King's Abbot, a small village serving as a great doctor there and when somebody dies he is responsible for the analysis. A Mrs Ferras dies and Dr Sheppard goes over to examine the body.
After his analysis he returns home again to talk about the death with his sister who pretends to know everything about the death. She believes Mrs Ferras had killed herself because she had killed her husband last year. That day Dr Sheppard meets Roger Ackroyd, the man whose murder is the main plot of the story, and Roger invites Dr Sheppard to his house in the evening telling Dr Sheppard that it is very important.
That evening, Roger tells James that Ralph Paton, his nephew, is in London, but the doctor had seen Ralph this afternoon. When Roger hears this and becomes upset. The next morning, Caroline tells her brother that she had seen Ralph Paton with Flora Ackroyd. They had been walking together and Dr Sheppard goes to see. A new character is introduced into the story. Hercule Poirot, the new neighbour, and also a