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A review by gautamgopalk
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
adventurous
challenging
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
4.0
Widely regarded as the best murder mystery by Agatha Christie and voted as the best crime novel ever by the British Crime Writers' Association in 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is an astounding literary work featuring fictional detective Hercule Poirot. This novel was serialised in 1925 and published in 1926. A gripping murder mystery that is simply spectacularly written, makes it hard to not read this in one sitting. The reader will want to reread this novel after the final reveal is made as a second reading will be immensely enjoyable in a different way.
In a genre, where the author reigns supreme, she has dazzled the audience with the setting, the characters, the language, the dialogues, the pace, the mystery and the ever important twist that one hopes for in a mystery novel. It feels impossible to find fault with this masterpiece. This book can be considered as a spiritual successor to Anton Chekhov's 1884 novel The Shooting Party and readers who are interested in the framework used by Agatha Christie might want to see the nascent stages of it in Chekhov's only full-length novel.
In a genre, where the author reigns supreme, she has dazzled the audience with the setting, the characters, the language, the dialogues, the pace, the mystery and the ever important twist that one hopes for in a mystery novel. It feels impossible to find fault with this masterpiece. This book can be considered as a spiritual successor to Anton Chekhov's 1884 novel The Shooting Party and readers who are interested in the framework used by Agatha Christie might want to see the nascent stages of it in Chekhov's only full-length novel.