Esther’s Reviews > The Murder of Roger Ackroyd > Status Update

Although this is only Poirot's 4th appearance the tone suggests that readers were expected to be well enough acquainted with him to immediately guess the identity of the Sheppard's new neighbour.

We think of cocaine addiction as a modern problem yet here is Agatha Christie in 1926 telling us that the cocaine problem is 'very prevalent in high society. '