Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Another great mystery by Agatha Christie! I really liked this one. For those of you who don't know much about her novels (like myself) I guess she has several different mysteries categorized by Ms. Marple and Hercules Poirot. I have now read the first one of each series and I like them both. I like Ms. Marple in the fact that she is older, a woman, and not in everybody's face about things. She just sits back and "watches." Hercules Poirot is an actual detective. In this novel he was "retired" and had come to live in this town to live a peaceful, retired life. But of course, there is a case for him to solve. I have to admit that I was very shocked at the end of this book. I had suspected this person at the beginning, but immediately dismissed him, as all the other characters did as well. Unfortunately I cannot give anything away about this book because it would spoil the entire story. But, it was very good. With Poirot you get to walk in the detective's footsteps and follow along with him on the case. The story is not written from his perspective, but the person whose perspective it is-follows him on the case every step of the way. Although Poirot is French and hard to understand sometimes, you like him and try to think like him. I kept going back to my original suspicions about this particular person, but could never find any real evidence to support that it was him. Read this and then we can chat. I hate reading these types of books and then trying to give a review because the whole review could be a spoiler alert...but this was very good and I thoroughly enjoy reading Agatha Christie. She is my new favorite author!

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