Joshua Gross’s Reviews > The Murder of Roger Ackroyd > Status Update

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

OMG this drama queen: "I am much aged, my powers may not be what they were.” Here he clearly expected a contradiction. “In all probability this is the last case I shall ever investigate. But Hercule Poirot does not end with a failure."

I think Flora's determination to announce the engagement might be a bad idea, esp since her fiancee seems interested in someone else possibly and is accused of murder, but also Flora is unhinged and suspicious herself

The doctor is thinking that there was nothing odd about miss Russells visit to him but he certainly did at the time, suspecting she didn't have an injured knee as she claimed and wondering what she was really doing. So I don't know why he's acting like she wasn't being weird now and thinking nothing about her raised suspicion...

Mrs Ackroyd is a ridiculous caricature of a hysterical woman

I thought it was strange that Poirot gave up on retrieving the gold thing from the fountain, I should have known better