The central theme in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is good versus evil. Throughout the book there are repeated acts of good versus evil where evil seem to overcome the good. In her 55 years of writing, Agatha Christie wrote 72 books. Agatha’s books have been translated into a lot of different languages. She wrote 66 mysteries and 6 romantic books. The characters in her stories are what makes her books very different and stand out. Being surrounded by a lot people influenced her writing. They gave her creative inspiration. The type of genre she chose most was mystery. This was hard for her because she had a difficult time putting what was going on in real life into her books. She would base the characters in her book on how the people around her act. When writing her books, she wrote on the things that were happening around her at that time of taking place. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd had its first publication in June 1926, in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Son and then was published in the United State on June 19, 1926. Her work was ranked third as the world’s most sold books after William Shakespeare and the Bible. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd has a whodunit genre in the story. With the book having different clues it takes the reader in different directions. This genre was most commonly used in mysteries in the 1920s-1950s era. The characters in these books were usually in the middle to upper class society. Detective fiction was a way to tell people that there is somebody to keep the public safe from harm and to restore the calmness corrupt by crime. The detective usually is smart and supportive of the law and is also able to bring justice to everyone. Throughout the book, the narrator has a chance to confuse the reader on who the murderer is and have a chance to hide the crime. This is to make the reader anxious about what he/she is reading. The name of the book actually set the plot of the book. It is almost like proof to the case that’s going on in the book. The irony in this story is that the Doctor, which is someone that is supposed to be trusted and is trusted to save the lives of others, but takes the life of Roger. He