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Fiction

SheilaT

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5. Spoiler alert!

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Mar 19, 2014, 11:51 PM

Mar 2014

The original novel like this was an Agatha Christie novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd originally published in 1926. When I finally got around to reading it some years back, I was about halfway through when I stumbled across something or another that gave away the plot. Damn! It's the ONLY time that's ever happened to me.

It's still a novel worth reading.

I think your problem is that everything after is a pale imitation. Try reading the original.

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I don't like a mystery where the story is told in first person, SPOILERS [View all] raccoon Mar 2014 OP

What's the problem? Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #1

The problem is that sort of story ought to be told in third person. raccoon Mar 2014 #2

LOL, "I forgot to tell you....." Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #3

I don't think there were any in the Barnes novel I just finished. raccoon Mar 2014 #4

Spoiler alert! SheilaT Mar 2014 #5

They are more interesting getting old in mke Mar 2014 #6