The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Mystery
- Time of Work: The early 1920’s
- Setting: King’s Abbot, a rural village in England
- Principal Characters: James Sheppard, Caroline Sheppard, Hercule Poirot, Roger Ackroyd, Ralph Paton, Flora Ackroyd, Mrs. Cecil Ackroyd, Miss Russell, Geoffrey Raymond, Ursula Bourne, Major Blunt
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Suicide, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, Rural or country life, Villages, Doctors, 1920’s, England or English people, Blackmail, Upper classes, Detectives, Death or dying, Wills, Truthfulness and falsehood, Theft, Gossip, Private investigators, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: King’s Abbot, England
Form and Content
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the story of a brutal disruption of order at an English country manor; famous from its first publication, it has been recognized as a classic model of the English mystery genre. It is narrated in the first person by the physician James Sheppard, the importance of which becomes wholly clear only by the novel’s end.
The story begins the day before Roger Ackroyd’s murder, with the death of a prominent townswoman, Mrs. Ferrars. When Sheppard reports the death to Caroline, she rightly infers that it was not an...
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Agatha Christie (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Agatha Christie (Mystery and Detective Fiction)Agatha Christie (Dictionary of World Biography)Agatha Christie (Short Fiction)Agatha Christie (Long Fiction)
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