A timeless classic!
It has
always left me stumped the way mystery/detective books are often undermined,
especially by ‘critics’ As far as I can see, such books are more difficult to
write than the conventional straightforward ones.
Writers
proficient in this genre (mystery) like Agatha Christie, Dick Francis, Dorothy
Sayers etc have been heralded for decades by millions of readers around the
world. This work, The murder of Roger
Ackroyd, for me always remind one of a work by African writer Omoseye
Bolaji – People of the Townships.
In both, a
first person narrator who plausibly tells the pertinent story, turns out to be
the murderer in the end, the villain of the piece ... (Bolaji is the creator and
author of almost ten detective works weaved around sleuth Tebogo Mokoena).
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd of course is a more conventional detective novel, with plethora of characters, tantalizing plot etc. It has remained a classic for…a century now?
- Leke Giwa
But it should be pointed out here that Bolaji's book, People of the Townships, is NOT part of his Tebogo Mystery series.
ReplyDeleteThanks. This is a work of classic indeed in detective genre
ReplyDeleteThanks. This is a work of classic indeed in detective genre
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