The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment

by Gilbert Adair

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 057122637X
• ISBN13: 9780571226375
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful read

A well-paced mystery story, and an intelligent pastiche with elements of parody. Definitely an entertainment! If you are a fan of the golden-age detective story and are drawn to this book by its title - read it. Once for the pleasure of the mystery, and a second time to savour the details.

Fluffy and entertaining

Adair succeeds in evoking the classic golden age mystery with his snowbound-country-house-party-embroiled-in murder tale. It includes eccentric English country characters, an impossible murder in a locked room, and amateur sleuths. It also had maybe a few too many long monologues from each character, but if you let yourself be taken along for the ride it's great fun.