Status Updates From The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

These fashionable English villagers are playing mah jong, which was all the craze in the 1920s after a westernized version was marketed

Do I really need to spend $30 to buy some medlar jelly I just learned about in this book so I can see what it's like?? No, and I'm not supposed to be eating excessive sugar, and I have about fifteen types of jam already but I want to try something new!

Dr Sheppards sister is framed like she's a complete gossipy nitwit instead of the sharp intuitive woman she is and it bugs me

Is the parlormaid the one Ralph was talking to in the woods? She seems awfully concerned about him

“To begin with, one must look at the thing logically——”

“Just what my poor Hastings used to say,” interrupted Poirot, “but alas! he never did so.”

Ha

He's suggesting this goose quill has been used as a straw for snorting heroin, what a fancy idea