Ten of the best women writing as men in literature

At the Guardian, John Mullan named a list of ten of the best women writing as men.

One book on the list:

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The classic whodunit is narrated by Dr James Sheppard, who assists Poirot in investigating the mysterious deaths of Mrs Ferrars and Roger Ackroyd, the man who is expected to marry her. Why does Christie choose to write in the person of this minor character? Thereby hangs the tale...

Read about another book on the list.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one of Lisa Scottoline's top 10 books about justice and appears on John Curran's top ten list of Agatha Christie mysteries.

See Mullan's list of ten of the best men writing as women in literature.

--Marshal Zeringue