Mystery
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA retired detective is drawn out of retirement by a village murder, narrated by a doctor whose account turns out to be considerably less complete than the reader is led to assume. Christie broke a rule of the genre so thoroughly with this one that critics argued about its fairness for years afterward. I will say only that the trick is entirely legal, by the letter of the form’s own rules.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 45 min
- Where to find it
- On the Mystery shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #69087. In the public domain in the United States.