7 SEPTEMBER 1996, Page 26

LETTERS

Wrong on two counts

Sir: In his theatre column of 24 August, Sheridan Morley asks, 'Who, in Edmund White's famous phrase, cares who killed Roger Ayckroyd?' Agatha Christie's Roger was named Ackroyd, and the Edmund in question was Wilson, not White. They are very different sorts of Edmunds.

Roger Kimball

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