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Murder on the Links and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
Murder on the Links and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Agatha Christie Murder on the Links: — The sand traps of the millionaire Renauld's fabulous course were feared by golfers -- and now one had become a fatal hazard for the legendary owner himself. Blood stained the sand where Renauld's butchered body was found. — Hercule Poirot could not resist the challenge of a tournament of death with a brilliant, mocki... more »ng killer. As the count of corpses mounted, Poirot fell further and further behind -- and only a desperate masterstroke could save the great detective from the most humiliating defeat of his career...
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:
This 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, and, of course, the redoubtable Hercule Poirot and his little grey cells. There are clues with a capital C to mislead us, and the reader gets so involved with these red herrings (or not) that the very simple truth eludes the puzzler.