Paperback, 304 pages
English language
Published April 28, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.
THINK YOU KNOW WHODUNNIT? THINK AGAIN
Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret. And then, yesterday, she killed herself.
But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her? Had it really driven her to suicide? Sadly, Roger Ackroyd wasn't going to live long enough to find out . . .
THE LITTLE GREY CELLS HOLD THE SOLUTION
THINK YOU KNOW WHODUNNIT? THINK AGAIN
Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret. And then, yesterday, she killed herself.
But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her? Had it really driven her to suicide? Sadly, Roger Ackroyd wasn't going to live long enough to find out . . .
THE LITTLE GREY CELLS HOLD THE SOLUTION
me encantó; un gran hombre con caracter autoritario que se va descubriendo poco a poco, un montón de gente con motivos para matarlo, todas y todos sus amigxs y buenos conocidxs, el clasico narrador asistente del detective, y un monton de secretos. El final si que me tomo por sorpresa, de esos en los que piesas, no puede ser pero sí :00 y tiene todo el sentido del mundo
This is probably one of my favourite Agatha Christie novels, and it's largely because of the structure. I absolutely adore the style of this one, especially because it was rarely a common form for the genre even though it is definitely something that I would've thought was done far more than it ever has been.
All of that sounds vague, and that's because to explain it would be to spoil the story itself.
It is definitely slow-moving at the beginning, but once it picks up? It keeps going and builds a lot of good suspense. It forces you to ask a lot of questions and to figure out which questions aren't being asked or even considered. What's not being said, even though it's being hinted at? Honestly, I adore it.
(The one thing I'd love to do, since I skimmed them, is remove the introductory texts that …
This is probably one of my favourite Agatha Christie novels, and it's largely because of the structure. I absolutely adore the style of this one, especially because it was rarely a common form for the genre even though it is definitely something that I would've thought was done far more than it ever has been.
All of that sounds vague, and that's because to explain it would be to spoil the story itself.
It is definitely slow-moving at the beginning, but once it picks up? It keeps going and builds a lot of good suspense. It forces you to ask a lot of questions and to figure out which questions aren't being asked or even considered. What's not being said, even though it's being hinted at? Honestly, I adore it.
(The one thing I'd love to do, since I skimmed them, is remove the introductory texts that were inserted in republication of the novel. All of them. They're just... a waste of paper, especially as they try to make things more important than they really are rather than just allowing people to enjoy what's there. That kind of thing always annoys me.)
Not one of my favorites due to its shortness -- too much is crammed in too little time, unnecessary narrative frame, very similar in structure to other short stories of hers.
