The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

A hot day, with the air feeling so stuffed, is not giving me such pleasure today. Homebound, restless, and with sore muscles, I survived the day playing in the 'farm', watching the final episode of a Korean drama (which I have no idea of what it was about before but comprehended all by this one finale episode), savouring a kimchi-like dish that my house mate made, and finally, completing reading this Agatha Christie's novel that I have bought quite a while ago but haven't been able to finish it. I dare say, this novel is the first one that I've succeeded in finishing after a long era of reading hibernation.

google image (the same cover that I bought)

Always a fan of Agatha Christie, I am. And I have read a lot of her books. As I said, I have been in hibernation in terms of reading novels lately. So, putting my dear FB to sleep (and that means my loyal Mr. LappyToppa too), picking up this book, and reading it in every possible position I could, and reading the last chapter aloud (as always...a long time ago) finally giving me a rush of satisfactory feeling. The joy that has long been dimmed by the advanced technology of virtual entertainment and plenty of other distractions.

But anyway, TMoRA is one of the many brilliant works by Mdm Christie that you can enjoy. Usually, I could never guessed who the murderer is behind the mysterious crime right until the very end, and that is usually in a gathering of all the suspects, but in this one, I am getting better....I have guessed who is the culprit just a chapter before the finale...hihi..I guess I need not to relay the plot here, interested readers can just pull it out from Google easily. This mystery case is one of the Hercule Poirot mysteries, meaning the author made this story as one of Poirot's cases and not the other popular protagonist in her novels, being Miss Marple. But even though this is a Poirot's case, it is being told from the perspective of another person being Dr. Sheppard, one of the key characters in the story. 

Need I say more? Hmm, I don't think so. It's a mystery novel and it is brilliant. There's elements of humour here and there that kept me chuckled in the effort of unraveling the case. Be prepared to be deceived. Mystery and detective story lovers, this is something that you cannot miss!