What a shame! I would have really liked to see how Suchet and company could tackle this innovative novel. Roger Ackroyd, is found stabbed to death. But this mystery has been twisted and contorted too much so that I can only faintly see Christie. Agatha Christie was a prolific writer, putting out 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections over the course of her illustrious career. David Suchet makes the best Poirot and certainly the most faithful to the books. Poirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband. Why not have the narrator in the novel narrate? How bout that hokey ending with its proverbial "shootout" to get the audience's attention? And what about Poirot cracking the case in question? These major departures from the book greatly diminished my favor with this film. Allowances must be made, but the script from this adaptation meanders a good deal from much of the source material. After her husbands death, the intimacy became more marked. Her name was Paton, and she was a widow with one child. Now when Roger Ackroyd was a lad of twenty-one, he fell in love with, and married, a beautiful woman some five or six years his senior.
It is a great novel and is definitely a hard one to truly bring to the screen(small screen in this case)entirely faithful. Agatha Christie - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is easily one of the greatest mystery novels and particularly one of Christie's best ever written. For those of you who have NOT read the novel by the same name by Agatha Christie, you may indeed think my criticism of this adaptation somewhat harsh.
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