Question

Edmund Wilson continued the attacks that he began in the essay “Who Reads Detective Fiction?” in a sequel titled “Who Cares Who Killed” this character. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character from an Hercule Poirot (“air-KEWL pwah-ROH”) novel narrated by Dr. James Sheppard that almost got Agatha Christie kicked out of the Detection Club due to its shocking solution.
ANSWER: Roger Ackroyd [accept either underlined name; accept The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; accept “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?”]
[10e] “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” responds to “The Decline and Fall of the Detective Story” by this English author of The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage.
ANSWER: W. Somerset Maugham (“mawm”) [or William Somerset Maugham]
[10h] This Scottish author punned on The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the title of The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, his first mystery parody novel featuring Evadne (“eh-VAD-nee”) Mount. He wrote the first English translation of a novel about the search for Anton Vowl.
ANSWER: Gilbert Adair (The latter work is Georges Perec’s A Void.)
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