000			01355nam a2200193 c 4500
008			210312n1980 gw ||||| |||| 00||||eng
020			_a0006136656
100			_aCHRISTIE, Agatha _c
245			_aThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd. _bKriminalroman.
260			_aGlasgow _bWilliam Collins Sons & Co. _c1980
300			_a221 S.
520			_aThis novel, written in 1927, is considered the best and most successful of the early mysteries. It met with no small outrage when it appeared, as it uses a plot device many readers thought "unfair." There is a full complement of characters populating the cozy English village of King's Abbot: Major Blunt, Colonel Carter, Miss Gannett, the butler, the housekeeper, the narrator, Dr. Sheppard, and his know-it-all sister (the precursor of Miss Marple, according to Christie), and, of course, the redoubtable Hercule Poirot and his little grey cells. There are clues with a capital C to mislead us, and the listener gets so involved with these red herrings (or not) that the very simple truth eludes the puzzler. Venerable reader Robin Bailey keeps the light, almost comic tone alive, although his voices are not particularly differentiated, and often he rushes the reading of dialog.
650			_aEnglischliteratur
650			_aCrime
650			_aMurder
650			_aFiction
650			_aTopic
942			_cBK
999			_c11956 _d11956