

No doubt, I am now an Agatha Christie addict, and this book was unputdownable. Hercule Poirot made me doubt again my beliefs about the person I suspected because he stated his facts “briefly” which I cannot get anymore from it. Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp and David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in the 2000 TV adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. No exaggeration! I was smiling and I murmured to myself that I didn’t see it coming.


I’m amazed and shocked at the same time because I can’t believe what happened to the end of the story. Yeah, that’s exactly how I felt after I finished reading it. James and Hastings have the same thoughts about Hercule Poirot, and it was annoying, to be honest.Įvery time I read an Agatha Christie book, I can’t put it down because I am amazed at how Agatha Christie narrates the story, plus how she made Hercule Poirot as if he was a person and not a fictional character.įor my thoughts about the story, these were my exact reactions after I read and discovered the real killer: James Sheppard narrates the story of what happened before and after the death of Mr. Hercule Poirot, and he is the one narrating the story.ĭr. James Sheppard became the assistant of Mr. Hercule Poirot since he was attending important events in his life, that’s why Dr. Flora Acroyd consult him about the murder of Mr. I have already broken my self imposed rule of not re reading any until I had read them all, I had to shut myself in a darkened room and re read MOTOE after watching Ken's sorry film, so I have decided to re read Ackroyd in the next couple of months.Hercule Poirot was in retirement mode when Ms. Also, I assume it was a translation he was using, but he did explicitly state he had read the book several times. I must say whilst watching the documentary I thought exactly that, it was a self publicity stunt for the documentary maker, who is a French theatre director who was staging the work as a play. I am working my way through all Poirot novels in the order of publication, getting through about 4 or 5 a year and am currently reading Dead Mans Folly, just to give you an idea of quite how long ago it was. Dr Sheppard, it was quite some time ago that I read it.
