The murder of Roger Ackroyd
Series: Hercule Poirot #4
Genre: Mystery/Thrillers
Original publication date: June 1926
Book Description (from Good Reads): The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling, complex case involving blackmail, suicide, and violent death, a cast that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his fabled career.
Thoughts:
The next book for #MakeyourMythtaker to read an outsourced book as I got it from Scribd, it is found only in audiobook but a very good performance.
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We follow Poirot but this time the good detective is not accompanied by his usual companion. Poirot is retired, he moves to a nice little house in a small town. He gets to know about a few deaths of local well-known people.
It starts following new character another doctor, he is well known and appreciated. It all begins with a suicide that starts the town to talk and the doctor is called to evaluate the situation, his sister is a big gossip and starts to divulge rumors as soon as he comes back.
We follow most of the story from the good doctor's P.O.V.
He is very close to the widow Ferrars' fiance Roger Ackroyd had a very important talk with her right before her suicide and that makes him feel bad as well. He received a mysterious letter from her after her passing and she intends to reveal a big secret that was eating her up.
He is killed and that's where the story picks up, there is, as usual, a few people invested here, Roger's niece wants the truth to be revealed so she approaches Poirot as she has heard of his reputation and talent solving puzzling mysteries.
The detective once more uses his little gray cells to make assumptions and get theories no one else saw coming. It is one of the mysteries that surprise me. As I have been reading Agatha Christie so I thought I knew the plot we were going to get but I was wrong, the big reveal was definitely a surprise for me.
With this book that is the link with my second path, I will move to the Gladiator path now.
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