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Dec 10, 2020 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 248 pages : 20 cm. Boxing Day 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart.
The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment is a whodunit mystery novel by Scottish novelist Gilbert Adair first published in 2006.
Aug 2, 2007 · If THE ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD is a pastiche of anything, it's a pastiche of MURDER BY DEATH, the insipid Neil Simon comedy movie of the 1970s. Gilbert Adair, when you went straight you forgot that you would lose your sense of humor; now you're a mere emblem of your former glory.
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Jan 1, 2006 · The Act of Roger Murgatroyd is a parody of Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. The characters are barely veiled Christie standards, with Evadne Mount standing in for Ariadne Oliver, and so on, and it is publicised on the cover as a 'witty homage' to Christie.
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In fact, were she not its presiding sleuth, "The Act of Roger Murgatroyd" is exactly the type of whodunit she herself might have written...
Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately), one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the bestselling author of countless classic whodunits. In fact, were she not its...
Jul 28, 2007 · The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment By Gilbert Adair Faber £7.99, 286 pages FT bookshop price: £6.39. The setting for this novel is a snowed-in country house on Dartmoor.
