![]() This is one of Christie’s main techniques to manipulate her audience and disorient them. As Sheppard uses the first personal pronoun “I” to tell the story, he is automatically removed from the reader’s list of suspects. Furthermore, Häljestam (2016) argues that “The domination of the narrative is of course an active choice from the author, which in turn enables the self-conscious narrator to deceive the reader”. ![]() ![]() Sareri and Maria (2018) claim that “the narrator Dr.Sheppard creates a conflict by continuously lying and deceiving, but that does not affect the judgment of Poirot, as he reveals in the end that he knew who the culprit was, but lacked evidence”. ![]() Nevertheless, Poirot, much like any undefeatable detective in crime fiction, comes to the right conclusion and exposes the identity of the murderer in front of the victim’s friends and family. ![]()
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