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    O Assassinato de Roger Ackroyd

    By Agatha Christie

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    Em Fevereiro de 1972, Agatha Christie escreveu uma carta ao seu editor. Nessa missiva, incluída nesta edição especial, a Rainha do Crime elegeu os dez livros de sua autoria de que mais gostava. O Assassinato de Roger Ackroyd, considerado um "favorito de sempre" pela autora, foi originalmente publicado em 1926 na Grã-Bretanha e nos Estados Unidos. Foi adaptado para o teatro em 1928, tendo também sido transposto para o cinema em 1931 e para a televisão em 1999.
    LanguagePortuguês
    PublisherASA
    Release dateFeb 27, 2012
    ISBN9789892312026
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    O Assassinato de Roger Ackroyd
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 4/5
      A classic of the genre. Nice pace, very clever, fun . At the end you have to say zut! mais bien sur.
    • 5/5
      I can't say much about why I liked it without spoiling it, but it's a perfect example of what it is. I even noticed some things and still didn't see that coming.
    • 3/5
      The classic, one of her older ones with a famous twist.
    • 4/5
      The BBC radio production was really well done and made listening to the book so enjoyable!
    • 4/5
      Poirot retires to grow marrows… and solve the murder of a widower who was hiding a dark secret.

      One of Christie’s most notorious works, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" is an interesting case: it’s undoubtedly a good book, but there’s a certain laziness in ascribing it “classic” quality just because of that ending. There’s no doubt that "Roger Ackroyd" is a defining moment in the history of crime fiction, but how does that stand up against the book as a work of the genre?

      Well, the simple answer is: very well. In fact, I’d call it the best book Christie wrote in the ’20s. Admittedly, she spent much of this decade writing short stories and dabbling in thrillers, but in some ways, "Roger Ackroyd" was where Dame Agatha found her place constructing baffling mysteries and then – more importantly – obfuscating every damn element of them. There’s nothing amazing in the construction of the murder itself, and one could argue that there are too many red herrings, to the point where it just becomes nonsensical. Yet, there’s nothing at all wrong with it either. Each individual clue makes sense, and Poirot’s investigation is both completely logical to the viewer and completely impossible for us to mimic, while also justifying the fact that he fails to detect the killer for so long.

      Christie had reduced Hastings to a recurring player already, and so Dr. James Sheppard fills in as narrator: it’s a perfect decision, because we get to essentially “re-meet” Poirot: a retired, civil but reclusive man who just wants to grow vegetable marrows. When he returns to active detection, Poirot will become much more arrogant, but in this environment, he is just a tradesman, doing his job.

      [Retrospectively speaking, Poirot's retirement in 1926 raises questions about how he remains so active into the 1970s, but that's another story.]

      The twist ending of "Roger Ackroyd", which I won’t spoil here, was front-page news at the time, and reasonably so. It was unprecedented, endlessly clever, and – depending on who you talked to – possibly unfair for the reader, who couldn’t be expected to figure it out. I’m not sure if that would apply nowadays. I certainly didn’t, but it’s possible a more astute reader – with ninety years of this trick’s descendants – may figure out the killer. (Of course, the other possibility – which has happened to all of us at some point – is that the mere act of knowing there’s a trick ending means you figure it out. You somehow become more cagey, and those little details – the joins and the screws – stand out.)

      So, is "Roger Ackroyd" a classic? Well, yes and no… and yes. It deserved the praise at the time, and still remains a bold experiment. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the reception to this novel – and the mere struggle it must have to been to write it – prepared Dame Agatha for her increasingly elaborate constructions in future, and her other no-holds-barred twisters like "Murder on the Orient Express" and "And Then There Were None". (Not to mention "The Mousetrap".) "Roger Ackroyd" is very solidly put together and – in truth – I can find nothing to fault it.

      Poirot ranking: 8th out of 38
    • 5/5
      I loved it...started to have my suspicions, but really wasn't sure, just thought I was reaching. It was brilliant, the reconstruction made me want to go back and find the clues. This was tried by another author I recently read and it was terrible.... never try to imitate Christie...nobody does it better.
    • 4/5
      This one started slower for me but by the end I was 😳😳😳. Had my suspicions but they were never on the actual culprit. This was my first adventure with Poirot and I can't wait to see what else he has in store. So excited that my A.C. Collection is growing. 🌟🌟🌟🌟
    • 4/5
      Roger Ackroyd is found murdered in his study and Hercule Poirot gets to exercise all his grey cells to find the killer. This one has a truly original murderer-reveal (or did at its publication - it's possible others have attempted the same now) and I am impressed with how Christie pulls off the subterfuge. I already knew who the killer would turn out to be, so I wasn't on tenterhooks, but I did pick it up to see the mechanics of how she did it.
    • 4/5
      I really didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did. I mean, I like crime/mystery fiction, especially as something to take a break from literature or heart-breaking stuff (Guy Gavriel Kay, I'm looking at you). But I didn't expect to like Agatha Christie's writing so much. This first exposure to her work is due to my Crime Fiction class, which now I'm really excited about, and I'm probably going to look out for more.

      It was cleverer than I expected. I'm generally able to guess the plot and motivations and all of that, no matter what kind of fiction I'm reading, but Agatha Christie's pretty good at misdirection. I think I did get there before the reveal -- but only a little!

      I liked the way she described things and set up characters. I particularly liked the character of Caroline, somehow, though I can't put my finger on why. She was an essentially good-hearted busybody. The narrative voice is wonderful, misleading you so well without ever seeming to.

      I wasn't actually that interested in Poirot himself. I found him a little irritating, actually, and I don't particularly feel the need for the next Agatha Christie book I read to be another with him in it.

      I hope I have this good an experience with all of the crime fiction on my list!
    • 4/5
      A classic, and the one that first put the words "unreliable narrator" on the lips of its readers around the world. A fun outing, but Christie--as she often did--grudgingly gives out some of the clues and critical information. Just enough to allow her to say that the reader has all of it, but sometimes she stretches that claim to the breaking point, and nowhere is that more apparent than in this story. But as is the case with any Christie work, this one is just chock-full of standards and terrific tropes from the mystery genre--largely because she played a huge role in creating those standards and tropes in the first place.
    • 4/5
      My favorite Agatha Christie mystery. This was our latest family read. What a great mystery! And you'll never guess the ending...
    • 5/5
      I love this one. Another of the ones I just reread. A county squire type fellow is found stabbed in the back in his study. His fiance has recently died of an overdose after being blackmailed into desperation. The story is told by the village doctor, a confidante of the dead man. The local police are stumped. But new village resident, Mr. Porrott, turns out to be none other than the great detective himself who comes out of retirement to take this case.
    • 4/5
      I often find Agatha Christie mysteries to be quite cliched, but of course that's because everyone has imitated her since. This one was probably the best I've read. A retired Poirot solving a case that leaves you guessing until the end. I really had no clue as to who the killer was, which was highly unusual for me. Enjoy.
    • 5/5
      If you only ever read one book by Agatha Christie read this one. It is rightly considered her masterpiece as she subverts the genre without comprising the narrative.
    • 4/5
      This was the first ever Agatha Christie book I've ever read and I am a bit mixed on it. I find it hard to fairly judge the older mysteries because all the things and tropes we take for granted now were brand new and not always worked out then.I found this book very hard to get into at first, until after about the first 100 or so pages, which is when the Poirot character actually started to become more involved in the story and it focused less and less on the first characters introduced and they actually started working on solving the mystery. That is the point where I started to get engaged in the story and it started to be fun.I thought the mystery was well handled and once I thought about the conclusion I can see how it got there, often surprise endings feel like a cheat where corners are cut and things happen off stage as it were so you had no chance to see it coming, not so in this case. When you look back, the pieces were all there.I enjoyed this one well enough, and I really enjoyed Poirot's character so I will happily give more of the books a try.
    • 3/5
      Classic Agatha Christie murder mystery .Full of cliches about class and the clever private detective and stupid police.I wonder how much of the drug (cocaine) issue reflects real life at the time or is it just a literary device.A good read.
    • 4/5
      In the village of King's Abbot, a still-young widow, Mrs. Ferrars, commits suicide, sparking rumours that she did it from remorse over killing her abusive husband a year previously. Roger Ackroyd, the wealthiest man in the district, tells the local physician, Dr. Sheppard, that he asked Mrs. Ferrars to marry him and that she confessed to killing her husband and being blackmailed. A letter arrives posthumously from Mrs. Ferrars to Ackroyd, almost certainly naming the blackmailer. Roger Ackroyd is murdered later that night in his locked study. Hercule Poirot, the fussy little Belgian detective with the trademark moustache and "the little grey cells", without his sidekick, Captain Hastings, this time, has rented the cottage next to Dr. Sheppard. When Flora Ackroyd, Roger's niece, begs Poirot to investigate her uncle's death, he agrees, although he warns her that, if he takes the case, "I shall go through with it to the end. The good dog, he does not leave the scent, remember! You may wish that, after all, you had left it to the local police."The revelation of the murderer was a great shock to readers, and has been since the book was first published in 1926. I remember how stunned I was to learn who it was, when I first read the book as a teen around 1964. One of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries, and one which still deserves its place as a classic Golden Age detective story.
    • 5/5
      I didn't see the twist coming at the end. I think it'll be interesting to re-read the book knowing who the murderer is. I also liked the interesting characters that are portrayed in the story. There were lots of funny moments.
    • 4/5
      I cut my mystery book teeth on Agatha Chrisite. I had read this one many years (decades?) ago, and remembered very little. This was the April choice for the library mystery book club. We agreed that we found this one a bit tedious at times with the amount of minutiae and details. It had very interesting character developments. Good clues were given throughout and summarized a couple times, and there wasn't anything hidden at the end, even though the murderer was a surprise. POSSIBLE SPOILER - I found the timetable of the murder and the alabis of the suspects, that Poirot developed, a little difficult to buy. Every suspect was able to account for their time, up to the minute, for the 60-90 minutes surrounding the murder. Of the eight or so persons involved, would they really know their whereabouts and exact times. Wrist watches were just becoming popular in the 1920s (this was written in 1926)and pocket watches were most popular at that time. It's hard imagine someone looking at their watch, wrist or pocket, at the exact time they knocked on Ackroyd's study door, and then again looking at their watch at the moment they left the study to go upstairs, then again the moment they entered their bedroom, and then again when they came downstairs to go to the kitchen. This annoyance aside, I enjoyed this. I will continue to read and re-read more of Christie.
    • 4/5
      Wow... Now that was a real surprise at the end!I generally like Agatha Christie novels, and have read quite a number of them, but I had never read this one yet. I really liked it, it keeps you guessing every time some new piece of evidence is found, and in the end, I still had no clue. Very skillfully done and well-written.
    • 5/5
      My boyfriend and I read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd together, and we kept a series of google docs of our clues and suspects and timelines. It was really fun, it made me really appreciate why the reveal is so legendary, surprising and controversial. There were plenty of clues to figure it out; logically, it was almost too obvious and did cross my mind... but I won't give it away.
    • 4/5
      Abridged on three CDs, and read by Nigel Anthony. A famous Poirot story, but one I'd never read before. Beautifully pulled off, although I suspect it suffers a little from the abridgement. Even with the abridgement issues, I loved this. And that's all I'm going to say about it.
    • 5/5
      This was my second Agatha Christie novel, after being completely absorbed by And Then There Were None. My new favorite is... I can't say. Both are landmarks of the mystery genre and still talked about to this day, and for me, both were impossible to put down. The early 20th century British prose is a treat, and there's a delight in enjoying stories that so many writers after Christie are influenced by.I never guessed who murdered Roger Ackroyd until Monsieur Poirot was ready to reveal the right clues. The last couple of chapters were a stunning revelation!
    • 5/5
      The grand daddy of murder mysteries!Forget the purist whims of the denoument "not being fair". How many of the readers have a personal favourites in detective fiction which they deem to be "fair", whatever that may mean?No matter how old this book is, it always seems to be continually on the list of the rookie reader - and ,lets face it, history has treated the book with much more respect than the critics who hauled the book over in 1926.
    • 5/5
      Some contest the conclusions as to whom the murderer really is... clever and innovative nonetheless
    • 4/5
      I'll say right off the bat that it's impossible for me to give Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" a fair rating.You see, I was absolutely obsessed with Christie's books in junior high and read everyone I could get my hands on. Flash forward more decades than I'd like to admit and I saw that "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was on the list of 1,001 books to read before you die. One of the covers looked somewhat familiar, so I may have read it before, and in my attempt to figure out whether I did, I read a review that revealed the ending in its very first sentence. Ugh.So throughout this reading, I knew the ultimate answer to the mystery... I may have given this a higher rating if I hadn't. That said, Christie is a genius at laying down clues and then quite furiously explaining why those clues don't matter at all. Interesting, that I have no real recollection of this book, though I feel sure I read it. I wouldn't count it among my favorite Christie stories, as her best, in my opinion is "And Then There Were None." I get why it's on the 1,001 list but feel like other Christie novels are more deserving.At any rate, I enjoyed the book, for both nostalgic and literary reasons.
    • 4/5
      I see from the flyleaf of this book tat i bought it at the age of thirteen, on a visit to York with my parents in the long, hot summer of 1976. At that time I was obsessed with Agatha Christie's books, and just read them one after another all the way through the school holidays. This particular episode in the Hercule Poirot canon is now regarded as rather a classic, and the solution to the murder was particularly innovative (Don't worry, I won't give anything away).Reading it again, thirty seven years later, it still works. Of course, this time I knew in advance who the murderer was, and armed with that foreknowledge I could see that all of the necessary clues are there. As usual, there is an acute social observation here (though I am fairly confident that I was utterly oblivious to this when I read the book as a boy), and the class strata are rigidly delineated. Still, the plot is watertight and the characters fairly plausible (within the wonderful world of Christie's village life, anyway), and nearly ninety years after it was first published it remains an engaging and engrossing story.I am pretty sure that i will be re-reading several more of Dame Agatha's works over the coming months.
    • 4/5
      The BBC radio production was really well done and made listening to the book so enjoyable!
    • 4/5
      One of the greatest suspense i had in years
    • 4/5
      Who has never heard of Hercule Poirot? He's almost as popular as Sherlock Holmes. In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Poirot emerges from retirement to uncover the killer of Roger Ackroyd, found with a knife in his neck. But, that is not the first death in the story. Mrs. Ferrars commits suicide after admitting she poisoned her husband.It is easy to see why this story is such a classic. It has it all: secrets, romance, murder, suicide, blackmail, and a bevy of suspects (including a butler). The story is told from the perspective of Dr. James Settles, the doctor who was on hand to examine Roger Ackroyd's body after the murder. He is the perfect narrator as he becomes Poirot's right hand man and seems to be involved...in everything.