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Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The
     
Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The
a famous detective story by Agatha Christie. When the book was published in 1926, it caused a lot of controversy (=serious disagreement) among readers because the narrator is shown to be the murderer at the end of the story. Some people thought that Christie was cheating by using this type of plot.
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