Adult Mystery
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.
But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death.
Besides the rather drab title, the Queen of Mystery does it again: wows the reader with a brilliant plot and unexpected culprit. I've only read a handful of mysteries, all Christie's (she is the master, after all), but each time I'm stupefied of who the murderer turns out to be, how they accomplished it, and how the detective (Poirot, in this novel), unwinds the knot of the mystery.
In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, I enjoyed watching the banter between the main character, Dr. Sheppard, and his sister, Caroline, as the latter attempts to solve the mystery using her various gossip channels. The main character himself was rather blah, and it would have been nice to peek more into Poirot's mind about what he's thinking and why.
This was a quick, easy read, and pairs perfectly with a cup of hot tea and a rainy evening. I scatter three stars onto good, ole Roger, and recommend this novel for 15 year olds and up.
*What are some mysteries that you love cozying up with on a wet, wild night?
