Ackroyd takes place in a closed room which could not be accessed without getting in notice of the other members of the house. In the MRA, Agatha Christie follows the major characteristics of a detective novel which are elaborated upon by the work of the clever Hercule Poirot. Yet the heart of the novel is “logical deduction” which beyond all reasons cannot be uncompromised. But in the Murder of Roger Ackroyd Christie seems to utilise the (redundant) and limiting conventions of the self same “genre” to fit in with (her) plot, such that in the “inverted “detective novel the conventions and the contradictions go parallel leaving an impact which is as inexpressible as it is gripping.ĭetective fiction is a sub-genre of the crime thrillers which gives the reader two gimmicks – a seemingly unsolvable problem and the pursuit to untangle it for which the detective proves instrumental. Circles as a writer who can easily merge the boundaries of the genre of her writing with unexpected and purely imaginative outcomes.
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