The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie 1926

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
literary fiction psychological

Our Take

Christie broke every rule of the detective novel and created the most audacious unreliable narrator in the genre. Dr. Sheppard tells you everything and nothing, and the final revelation rewrites every sentence you have already read. Fair play at its most unfair.

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