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Name: Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

Author: Pierre Bayard
Year: 1998
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Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime

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ISBNs:
9781565846777
9781565845794
156584677X
156584579X

Agatha Christie's classic novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd has sparked great debate in the years since its publication in 1926, inspiring cultural critics from Roland Barthes to Umberto Eco to explore its unique construction: a murder mystery in which the murderer appears to be the narrator. Now, in a thrilling twist on the conventional solution, Pierre Bayard's Who Killed Roger Arkroyd? reopens the Ackroyd file with unexpected results: Is the killer still at large? Bayard's in-depth investigation of this well-loved classic will change forever the way mysteries are read. Now, in a thrilling twist on the conventional solution, Pierre Bayard's Who Killed Roger Arkroyd? reopens the Ackroyd file with unexpected results: Is the killer still at large? Bayard's in-depth investigation of this well-loved classic will change forever the way mysteries are read.
This book is not a spoof. it is a humorous entirely new analysis of the famous 1926 mystery. It challenges the reader to to challenge he author in the apparent possible, plausible solution of the mystery.