Booklog 29/2021: Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Hercule Poirot #4

[jacey]

Marmite. Love it or hate it. No, sorry. I know people love this but I hate stories with unreliable narrators. I feel cheated. The author deliberately leaves out the information that would give the reader a fair chance of reaching a conclusion alongside Hercule Poirot. I don't find this clever, I find it annoying.

There's not much I can say without spoilers.

A widow dies from an overdose of barbiturates and  the following day Roger Ackroyd, the man she was going to marry, is murdered by a knife to the neck. There's an obvious suspect but his fiancee is convinced he didn't do it and asks Hercule Poirot, recently 'retired' to the village, to investigate. Nothing is quite what it seems.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I've never got on with Christie for much the same reasons!

[jacey]

Yes, I know my reaction will not chime with Christie fans, though. This is obviously not my genre.