What is Dr. Sheppard’s hobby?
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He helps Hercule Poirot investigate the murder of Roger Ackroyd. Caroline describes him as "quite an old fogey", definition which he uses himself later in the novel. ... Sheppard is at first amused and interested about Poirot, which jokingly replies to him that "throwing marrows isn't one of his hobbies, don't worry".
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Dr. James Sheppard is the narrator of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. As a result, avid mystery readers—both now and especially in the 1920s—would be predisposed to trust him. In detective novels, there’s a long tradition, stretching back to the Sherlock Holmes stories (narrated by the reliable Dr. Watson), in which the narrator of the story is the most trustworthy character—the detective’s right-hand man. However, in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie challenges readers’ assumptions about narration and the conventions of the mystery novel, and in the final pages of the book it’s revealed that Dr. Sheppard is the murderer. Sheppard is a somewhat peculiar character: although he’s the narrator of the book, readers learn a surprisingly small amount about him (the “twist ending” is dependent upon readers not learning too much about him, after all). Sheppard is a physician, and appears to be reliable, trustworthy, and altogether likeable—hence, we assume, Poirot’s apparent friendship with him. In retrospect, however, Christie makes it clear that Dr. Sheppard is a weak, desperate man who, as a result of his bad investments and desire to save face, blackmails Mrs. Ferrars and is then forced to murder his friend Roger Ackroyd to prevent himself from being exposed.
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