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¡°The Murder of Roger Ackroyd¡±, written by the queen of detective fiction Agatha Christie, is an excellent detective story that studies the criminal identity productively. Through the murderer narrates by using the first pronoun ¡°I¡±, Christie seems to imply that a brutal culprit may be everyone whomsoever you believe in, you love, you support or you are fond of. Moreover, she argues that perpetrators have emerged not from some primordial darkness, but from our local community that has equipped them with reasons and motives and even with a perverted version of some virtues. A criminal is very hard to distinguish from society by social position and gender. Just as well as Dr. Sheppard, the murderer of Roger Ackroyd, mentioned that ¡°large numbers of murders have had nice manners (45)¡±. In fact, Dr. Sheppard, is a rather respectable, kind and admittedly professional man in King¡¯s Abbot, the village he lives. It¡¯s no coincidence, when Mr. Ackroyd found that Mrs. Ferrars, he purposed, committed suicide because someone blackmails for her poison to her ex-husband, he demands to have a sole talking with Dr. Sheppard in his study. He appealed: ¡°You understand, Sheppard, I¡¯m telling you this in confidence.
Approximate Word count = 757
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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