Agatha Christie’s the murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Part of Part of BBC Dramatization with John Moffat as Poirot and a whole list of actors playing the different roles!
Running length around 2 hours
Fictional thriller genre
No spoilers but if you absolutely don’t want any clue then read the novel first and then read this review since even a small clue will spoil the suspense or surprise!
The twist ending had made this a very popular book!
Some of the best endings are the ones where the narrator or the chief investigator or the lead detective or the juror is actually the murderer!
These have been used in novels such as the silent patient or Curtain; Poirot’s last case and in one of the short stories by Jeffrey Archer in his book Quiver full of Arrows (one of his best books!)
Even in one of Byomkesh novels by Bandhopadhyay; there is a story when a person tries to narrate a story to Byomkesh of an unsolved murder mystery only to have realised that he was speaking to the ace sleuth! Even that was a surprise unexpected twist!
One of her other Novel; the lead police investigator is the killer!
Now in all the above I have not mentioned any specific details so there is no spoiling!
This novel is also a typical Poirot thriller where he uses ‘his little grey cells’ (in his own words!) to solve a mystery!
His typical reveal in the end to a group is left incomplete though and the end is open ended in that you are not told about the later events but the ending is a twist indeed!
If you have read the novel before; this is a great refresher indeed and if you haven’t then lucky you! You get to read the twist for the first time!
The Audio book narration is spot on but you must concentrate a little more since there are too many characters.
Enjoy!
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