A comprehensive, professionally designed 29-slide quotation bank for Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, created for AQA A-Level English Literature B: Elements of Crime Writing.

The presentation gathers a wide range of carefully selected quotations from across the whole novel and organises them into clear, teachable sections. Each quotation is accompanied by its chapter reference, concise contextual guidance, focused analysis of Christie’s methods, and links to the conventions of crime writing.

The resource explores:

• The opening deaths and the chain of crime surrounding Mrs Ferrars
• Caroline’s gossip network and the closed community of King’s Abbot
• Roger Ackroyd as victim, patriarch and social centre
• Blackmail, guilt, secrecy, money and inheritance
• Ralph Paton as the deliberately constructed “obvious suspect”
• Poirot’s entrance, methods, psychology and commitment to order
• Fernly Park as both crime scene and theatrical setting
• The telephone call, the body, the dagger and other physical clues
• Inspector Raglan and the limitations of official detection
• Women, class, respectability and concealed lives
• Sheppard’s manuscript, reticence and unreliable narration
• The dictaphone, the chair and the mechanical construction of the alibi
• Poirot’s accusation, Sheppard’s motive and the collapse of narrative control
• The Apologia, the novel’s “fair play” debate, punishment and moral ambiguity

The final slides provide fast quotation clusters organised by crime-writing element, together with a practical structure showing students how to turn quotations into developed A* exam paragraphs.

Ideal for whole-class teaching, revision lessons, independent study, homework, essay planning and exam preparation.

Spoilers throughout.