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justinh94 's review for:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
A classic for a reason: even within the wider ingenuity of Christie’s Poirot stories, the boldness and inventiveness of Ackroyd stands apart. It’s unfortunate that my copy’s forward partially tipped me off to whodunnit, but it’s a testament to Christie’s obfuscating genius that even with me suspecting the correct perpetrator the whole time, I was never able to feel completely sure until the end—despite the final reveal holding up perfectly in retrospect. She’d go on to write more strictly entertaining books, but in terms of pure formal innovation (people are still ripping this off a century later!), it doesn’t get much better than this.