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GATE 2024 XH2 (English) – Question 35

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Literary Genres and Subgenres: History, evolution and importance of categorisation · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Agatha Christie broke a fundamental rule of detective fiction in _______ .

  1. Murder on the Orient Express
  2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  3. Death on the Nile
  4. Three Act Tragedy

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Correct answer: (B) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Explanation

In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the narrator turns out to be the murderer, which broke the convention that the narrator must be fair to the reader.