Narrative voice in The murder of Roger Ackroyd - a question of trust.
Agatha Christie establishes trust in her narrator in ways that we might associate more with a writer like Jane Austen. But is that trust wise? The author suggests that far from leaving us in the safe, comfortable terrain of classic fiction, Christie draws us into the more murky world of the modern novel, where part of the pleasure for the reader is in having that trust betrayed.