This is the starting point in Pierre Bayard’s clever, affectionate tribute to the Queen of Crime. But when faced by Hercule Poirot in a typically grandstanding finale, Sheppard reacts to Poirot’s solution of the crime with astonishment, and with good cause: the punctilious Beligian detective’s explanation is as motiveless as it is impractical. When Agatha Christie published her masterpiece The Murder of Roger Ackroyd she confounded the conventions of the detective story by making her narrator, Dr Sheppard, the killer: every event in the novel is seen through Sheppard’s eyes.
An inspired blend of criticism, detection and good old-fashioned sleuthing.
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