The queen of crime thriller dame Agatha Christie is one of my
most favorite authors. I like her novels and stories for two
reasons. First, the plots of the novels and the stories
and the other is that her characters and plots can be fitted
anywhere irrespective of time and place. Sometimes i also
feel that they are known to me. I can find them in everyday
live.
She had written 76 crime novel and short stories. Although
‘Murder of Roger Acroyd’ is considered as her masterpiece,
in my opinion, her masterpiece is towards zero.
In this novel, the main character Nevile Strange is a well
known tennis player. Externally he is very sober and very
sporting who always accepts his loss with smile. but in core
he is cruel and revengeful. His first wife Audre Strange
leaves him for another man. To take the revenge neville plot
a murder of lady Tresselian in such a way that entire
suspicion will fall on Audrey and she will be hanged for
murder which she never commited. When audre saw that
there is no way to prove her innocence she accepted the false
charge against her and tried to take her own life. She was
saved by a man called Mr. Macwhirter. he and superintendent
Battle ( who is the incharge of the case) make a trap for
Neville to make him confess.
According to supt. battle it is not fair that in every detective
story murder happens in first act. But murder should be the
climax of the story. It will take place in the fifth act of the
play. Every people and every incident will converge to that
climax or that ultimate murder.
In this novel, the climax is the murder of Audre Strange which
is planed by Neville Strange. The murder of lady Tressilian is
only a step of it, not the ultimate murder.
I like this novel very much, because the novel is dependent
on psychological crime, which is Agatha’s specialty. Every
character of this novel has a different type of psychology
and you will find their natures familiar to you. We often see
people like Neville, Audre, Kay (another character in the novel),
Mary supt. Battle’s daughter. In this novel Agatha creates
a perfect climate of murder successfully.
