The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

, #4

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Publikuota 2013 m. balandžio 28 d., HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-00-752752-6
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THINK YOU KNOW WHODUNNIT? THINK AGAIN

Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret. And then, yesterday, she killed herself.

But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her? Had it really driven her to suicide? Sadly, Roger Ackroyd wasn't going to live long enough to find out . . .

THE LITTLE GREY CELLS HOLD THE SOLUTION

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apžvelgė autoriaus Agatha Christie knygą The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #3)

¡Me engañaste, Poirot! – Una historia que me hizo dudar de todo

No sé cómo lo hace Agatha Christie, pero siempre logra que me crea más lista de lo que soy. El asesinato de Roger Ackroyd me atrapó desde la primera página. Y cuando llegó el final… boom. Me sentí estafada. De la mejor manera posible.

Todo empieza con la muerte de una mujer. Después, Roger Ackroyd, un hombre importante del pueblo, también aparece muerto. Y ahí entra en escena Hercule Poirot, con su bigote, su orden, y su cerebro que ve lo que nadie más ve.

Yo me pasé todo el libro buscando pistas. Anotando mentalmente cosas raras. Sospechando de todos. Me dije: “Esta vez sí lo descubro antes que Poirot”. Spoiler: no lo hice.

Lo más genial del libro es el narrador. Parece confiable, amigable, casi invisible. Pero Christie juega con eso. Te guía, te distrae, te hace mirar para otro lado. Y cuando la verdad sale a la luz… …

apžvelgė autoriaus Agatha Christie knygą The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

Enjoyable.

This is probably one of my favourite Agatha Christie novels, and it's largely because of the structure. I absolutely adore the style of this one, especially because it was rarely a common form for the genre even though it is definitely something that I would've thought was done far more than it ever has been.

All of that sounds vague, and that's because to explain it would be to spoil the story itself.

It is definitely slow-moving at the beginning, but once it picks up? It keeps going and builds a lot of good suspense. It forces you to ask a lot of questions and to figure out which questions aren't being asked or even considered. What's not being said, even though it's being hinted at? Honestly, I adore it.

(The one thing I'd love to do, since I skimmed them, is remove the introductory texts that were inserted in …