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Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment (Evadne Mount Trilogy) (Paperback)

by Gilbert Adair (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (2 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571226388
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571226382
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 47,220 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'[A] knowing and affectionate send-up of a classic whodunit ... it's undeniable fun.'


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'A mystery as intriguing as those in the best of the stories he is spoofing.'
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Really great fun, 21 Sep 2007
By Ms. MacNeill (London) - See all my reviews
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Adair has written a detective story that I think almost any writer from the Golden Age would have been proud to put their name to. Filled with numerous in-jokes and references to classic detective stories, "The Act of Roger Murgatroyd" nevertheless is not just for established fans of the genre. It's exactly what I was hoping it to be: a real brainbender of a whodunnit, with red herrings everywhere and every character looking like a legitimate suspect, and it's written in an easy, comical style. While Adair fills his novel with clichés, there is a self-awareness about his writing that forgives this. It's both parody and art, if that's possible.

The heroine, Evadne Mount, "Dowager Duchess of Crime", was hard to like at first, but I found that once the story got going she grew on me enormously. For all her flaws - vanity, roughness and a reluctance to hand the centre stage over to someone else - she was a character who I ended up finding incredibly easy to root for.

All in all, it's a charming, tongue-in-cheek novel - perhaps its one failing is that at 286 pages it's a little too short! It really is the most enjoyable book - the sort that makes you stay in bed all morning reading it! I'd highly recommend it to anyone, and I'm very much looking forward to reading the sequels.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read!, 8 Sep 2007
By Snapdragon (London) - See all my reviews
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Reading this novel is almost like reading a dramatisation of the board game 'Cluedo. Set circa 1935, on Boxing Day, this is a really wonderful locked room mystery reflecting all the characters and devices of the 'golden age' of mystery writing and then subverting them all!

It is also hysterically funny. One of the charactes, an aptly named Evadne Mount, is a writer of whodunnits and throughout the novel she describes the plots of her novels (much to everyone's dismay!) My favourite was 'The Case of the Family Jewels' and I will leave to your imagination what the story was about.Other highlights from her canon include 'The Urinal of Futility' based on 'The Well of Lonliness'.

A great read, brilliant characers and a satisfying conclusion. Brilliant!


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and really, really funny!, 4 Jan 2007
By Snapdragon (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (Evadne Mount Trilogy) (Hardcover)
Reading this novel is almost like reading a dramatisation of the board game 'Cluedo. Set circa 1935, on Boxing Day, this is a really wonderful locked room mystery reflecting all the characters and devices of the 'golden age' of mystery writing and then subverting them all!

It is also hysterically funny. One of the charactes, an aptly named Evadne Mount, is a writer of whodunnits and throughout the novel she describes the plots of her novels (much to everyone's dismay!) My favourite was 'The Case of the Family Jewels' and I will leave to your imagination what the story was about.Other highlights from her canon include 'The Urinal of Futility' based on 'The Well of Lonliness'.

A great read, brilliant characers and a satisfying conclusion. Brilliant!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite funny nor clever enough
As the title tells us, this is a post-modern deconstruction of the `golden age' detective story, and especially plays intertextual games with Christie's The Murder of Roger... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Roman Clodia

4.0 out of 5 stars More than a parody
I was given this book because of my love of puns and a fondness for golden age crime novels. It certainly satisfies on both of these levels. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Elizabeth OB

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother
WARNING: Contains spoilers. Don't read this if you still intend to read the book!

Someone recommended "And Then There Was No One", the last in the Evadne Mount series... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Daniel Kiechle

5.0 out of 5 stars Successful pasquinade
The fact that the title of this book is a pun on one of Agatha Christie's best known novels gives some idea what to expect, both in terms of genre and of authorial cleverness. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Graham R. Hill

5.0 out of 5 stars Gilbert dunnit
The story opens in a snowbound country house located on the edge of Dartmoor on Boxing Day 1935. The body of Raymond Gentry, an effete gossip columnist, has been found in the... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Tony Floyd

3.0 out of 5 stars A classic dark and stormy night - and day
This is lots of fun and as comfy as a well-stuffed sofa.

It does rely too much on the characters holding court for pages on end which does seem a bit lazy on the... Read more
Published 20 months ago by S.M. Gidley

2.0 out of 5 stars Intermittently entertaining...
...but ultimately annoying and unconvincing. As a mystery in its own right, the book fails.
Published 24 months ago by Dominic Swayne

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful old fashioned "locked-room" Cluedo style murder mystery
If you like this type of thing then this is perfectly right up your alley. It won't change the world; it won't solve global warming and it will never be the greatest book ever... Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2007 by BS on parade

3.0 out of 5 stars Critical Voodoo
I sent away for this book to Amazon UK because I couldn't wait for Carroll & Graf in NYC to issue the US edition in September 2007. Read more
Published on 24 April 2007 by Kevin Killian

5.0 out of 5 stars Fluffy and entertaining
Adair succeeds in evoking the classic golden age mystery with his snowbound-country-house-party-embroiled-in murder tale. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2007 by Ron

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