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Books : The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Poirot)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Poirot) by: Agatha Christie List Price: £6.99 CD-Charts Price: £5.24 You Save: £1.75 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780007141340 ISBN: 0007141343 Label: Harper Manufacturer: Harper Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: April 02, 2002 Publisher: Harper Studio: Harper Sales Rank: 3323 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The Ultimate DeceptionAgatha Christie's job, as a writer of Detective Novels, was, paradoxically, to hide the criminal - much like a spiv with the card game, Hide the Lady. Even though the punter aims to find the card - and makes wild guesses (based, of course, on superior talents) the side-show spiv will win every time - maybe it's just a trick, a slight of hand, but we come back again and again in the vain hope of putting one over on the expert. Not much hope, I'm afraid! `The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' has to be Ms Christie's ultimate deception - it certainly had me fooled right `til the end. No matter where I looked, the Lady was hidden. Up pop all the usual suspects - and with a Christie you know if someone is accused, ... Read More: Rating: - Shocking twist at the endThis is the first Agatha Christie novel I have read and it hit the spot for a period off work with a headcold. An intriguing page turner, but not too intellectually demanding. Stunning ending! Rating:  - I guessed ...And then thought, "Oh, no, it couldn't possibly be!" Which is why Agatha Christie - and particularly Roger Ackroyd - is such fun. Rating: - GeniusRather than fill up space with unnecessary rubbish, I think that if you truely think about the plots in Christies' books, they are pure genius, way ahead of there time, and before anyone slates her work i would like them to really think about the fact that her books were very original in plot, while in setting they were very typically unoriginal. She has a style almost completely of her own, and I dont think there has been one bad book she has written. However a lot of reviews on Amazon are controversial, some giving even 2 or 3 stars, just for the fact that some weren't everyones cup a tea. And I dont really think there are many people who write these reviews are even qualified to judge them. There are a lot of really great books on ... Read More: Rating: - The Murder Of Roger AckroydI enjoyed this book a lot but I guessed who did it, so the detective aspect of the story was ruined, but that didn't stop the book from being extremely enjoyable and I also think that it is enjoyable to read about the detecting process, even though I guessed the conclusion. Most other reviewers found the ending amazing and practically unguessable, I am probably just used to her books. The novel is narrated by the doctor in the story, Dr Sheppard. Poirot becomes Dr Sheppard's next door neighbour and soon after, Roger Ackroyd is murdered and Poirot decides to investigate the case. Poirot has to find out who the murderer is, based on such clues as a missing suicide note left by the woman that Roger Ackroyd loved, a telephone ... Read More: |
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