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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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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago ANorth Carolina A10101030MEH
Cornell BMaryland0000
FloridaArizona State010010E
Georgia StateNYU0101020EH
Illinois ANorthwestern1010020ME
IndianaToronto A010010E
Iowa StateCornell A010010E
Johns HopkinsToronto B0101020EH
MITGeorgia Tech1010020ME
MichiganVanderbilt1010020ME
MinnesotaHarvard010010E
North Carolina BIllinois B0000
RITUCF010010E
StanfordColumbia A1010020ME
TexasChicago B1010020ME
Toronto CVirginia Tech1010020ME
UC Berkeley ARutgers1010020ME
UC Berkeley BBritish Columbia010010E
VirginiaColumbia B1010020ME
WUSTL BLSE1010020ME
Waterloo AWUSTL A1010020ME
Waterloo BPenn State1010020ME
Winona StateOhio State1010020ME
YaleOttawa1010020ME

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2416.2592%58%13%