![]() ![]() ![]() The book plays a complicated shell game with narrative and empathy, leveraging the first to misdirect the second, and vice versa. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is in fact a complicated trick, though not in quite the way the younger, baffled me thought. The murderer couldn’t be … that suspect! Why, that suspect wasn’t even a suspect! I was sure that master detective Hercule Poirot was playing some sort of complicated trick and that the last pages of the novel would reassure me that, no, in fact, it was the butler all along. ![]() I still vividly recall the reveal because I didn’t believe it. I FIRST READ Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit The Murder of Roger Ackroyd some 35 years ago. ![]()
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