Talk:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

message: I found a similar text at http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/The-Murder-of-Roger-Ackroyd
is this gonna be an issue?
:That is a site that copies wikipedia content, see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Mno#Nationmaster. DES (talk) 21:05, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia mirrors 

message: Isaac Asimov borrowed Christie's device in his science fiction/mystery novel THE CURRENTS OF SPACE.  Although the guilty party does not narrate the story, part of it is narrated (third person) from his point of view without giving away his guilt -- which means that it does technically "follow the rules"
CharlesTheBold 05:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More trivia 

message: I have removed the following paragraph a couple times, as it is original research. It might be difficult to accept it, but in wikipedia, we need a source saying a reliable, independent source has actually reached that conclusion - not just the editor:
::It should be added that it is difficult to accept that neither AC, her reviewers and critics, nor biographers were aware of Rufus Gillmore's "The Alster Case" published by D. Appleton & Co London & New York in 1914. Gillmore's story has a (crucial) misleading telephone call, a locked door behind which the victim is discovered dead in a chair, having been attacked from behind, a private detective who after some distractions discovers all, and a confession in the final chapter by the guilty one who is revealed by the detective to be the narrator of the story himself.  AC's Roger A., written twelve years after Gillmore's story, is too similar to claim originality. <ref>The Alster Case,by Rufus Gillmore, electronic edition by Black Heath Editions 2016,Black Heath Classic Crime.
- DavidWBrooks (talk) 22:39, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I support you fully, . That paragraph does not belong in this article, as the only citation is some other mystery novel. The reviewers of the time gave Christie full credit for her plot device, and those are included in the article. --Prairieplant (talk) 09:04, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not really sure what the above rigmarole is all about, but if it is about letting the narrator be the guilty party, then that HAS been used before: Norwegian author Sven Elvestad, nom de plume "Stein Riverton", Norwegian name of book "Jernvognen", published 1909. Oh, and give my regards to M. Poirot. (PS: I am not discussing whether Agatha knew about this or other examples; that part is unknown to me; I am merely pointing out that her book was not the first one published that used this particular plot device. Ok ?) Autokefal Dialytiker (talk) 21:50, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Originality of the novel

message: I don't recall any reference to Mrs Ferrars' Christian name in the novel. On what basis is she ascribed the name Dorothy?
Rithom (talk) 05:48, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that Roger Ackroyd says her first name early in the story, before he is killed. I do not have the book at hand to verify it. If you do, look in that portion of the novel.  --Prairieplant (talk) 17:27, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not mentioned anywhere in my edition. Can you give a chapter reference? I remember thinking how odd it was that Roger Ackroyd, who was effectively her fiancé, never mentioned her Christian name. Rithom (talk) 05:47, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Characters' Names: Mrs Ferrars