"Una dintre cărțile mele de care am rămas atașată este „Mâna ascunsă”. Unele romane nu trec testul timpului – pentru mine, însă, acesta îl trece cu brio."
Agatha Christie

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La recomandarea doctorului, Jerry Burton se mută pentru câteva luni în liniștitul orășel Lymstock împreună cu sora lui, pentru a se recupera după un accident aviatic. Doctorul îl sfătuiește să se implice în bârfele locale și să-și bage „nasul cu interes și curiozitate în treburile vecinilor” săi. Dar Jerry va găsi orice, numa More...

I must have read this as a teenager in Devon during the 1970s but the fact that it was so obviously set down the road on the edge of Dartmoor completely passed me by at the time. I did see Agatha Christie in her garden at Greenway while on a boat trip down the river Dart from Totnes around that time - she was pointed out by the man on the public address system causing the whole party to swing round and stare in unison - but I was more concerned by the fact that my mother had somehow mixed up my More...

Siblings Jerry and Joanna move to the country to help Jerry recuperate from an injury. As they adjust to the slow country life, they receive an anonymous letter accusing them to be lovers. They soon discover that many residents are receiving anonymous letters (with incorrect accusations). Things become serious when the solicitor's wife commits suicide after the paternity of her son is challenged. The local police try to figure out what is going on, but when the vicar's wife calls in her old, dea More...

If anyone wants to develop the habit of reading, Agatha Christie is the ideal choice to get you hooked to a book instantly. This book is one of the her favourite books as well, which prompted me to pick it up. I loved the village humour in this book. Jerry and Joanna are total misfits in this small insignificant village. They have come to recuperate assuming the village will be peaceful but end up witnessing drama in the form of anonymous letters, which goes too out of hand. Some hilarious momen More...

A short mystery where the famous detective, Miss Marple, doesn't even appear until the last 50 pages! This was a neat story of gossip run amuck in a small village in 1942 England. The protagonist is convalescing, from a plane crash, Jerry Burton, who with his sister Joanna have rented a house in Lymstock, so that he can relax. In the first chapter, Joanna receives an annoymous letter full of slanderous comments. The letter is thrown away, but when other characters are introduced, it seems that t More...

Another Agatha Christie to pass the time. Mmmmm. Delicious. Only I do have the same complaint I had with another of her books that was listed as a Miss Marple Mystery. Jane Marple doesn't appear until the last 1/4 of the book and then she's just a cute little old lady who says a few words at the end. That doesn't count as a Miss Marple mystery for me!! I much prefer it when Miss Marple is the one solving the crime firsthand. The short stories featuring her are the way to go, I'm figuring out.

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Vintage Christie--ranked against her own competition of jaw-dropping books, such as And Then There Were None, this is a tad less memorable, but it still kept me guessing to the end while playing fair with the reader. Otherwise it's more than solid and has all the hallmarks of her best. There is the picture of life in a small English village in the mid-20th Century, Lymstock, which has been suffering from a series of poison pen letters culminating in murder. There's all the clues that come togeth More...

"Caleb has absolutely no taste for fornication. He never has had. So lucky being a clergyman."

A few years ago, when I worked for a different publishing conglomerate, we would often try to include Christie plays and short stories in our literature anthologies. Her estate would permit that, but only on the condition that we not change ONE WORD of the text. They were so serious about it that they actually suggested works by other authors to use instead. And now I know why they wouldn't let us abrid More...

You know what, everybody? When I started obsessively reading Agatha Christie/Miss Marple books about about a month ago, I was embarrassed. I knew you people would look down your noses at me for reading "Mystery novels." The kindest thing you might have said was, "Oh, well, Teater is in a beach reading phase -- hope he's back to the classics by September." More likely, you would have wondered what happened to me -- maybe some sort of swimming accident that deprived my brain of oxygen just long en More...

Okay, I was only going to give this book four stars because I wouldn't read it again, but that goes for all mystery books. The more I think about it, the more Agatha Christie seems like a genius. Christie bypasses many traditional mystery hangups by not telling the story from Miss Marple's perspective. This is a Miss Marple book, so I mistakenly thought that it would feature Miss Marple, but she is probably only in about 10% of the 200 pages. Instead of being told by a veteran crime solving spin More...

اممممممممممم اعشق روايات اجاثا كريستي

وهاذي الرواية كانت فاتحة العشق والعلاقة الي بيني وبين اجاثا كريستي ... السبب الي يخليني احب اجاثا كريستي اني احس في رواياتها روح مرحة على الرغم من انها روايات جريمة

لا تسألوني شلوووون بس جذي ... روايات اجاثا كريستي فيه روح مرحة لا تخطأ ... شخصياتها فيهم غرابة اطوار عجيييبة

يعني مس ماربل مثلا ... عجووووز غير متزوجة تعشق حديقتها الصغيرة...و تدس انفها في كل المشاكل والقضايا ...وكل شخص تقابلة تلاقي له شخص يشبهه في قريتها الصغيرة سينت ميري ميد ... وكل قضية تواجهها More...

This one was a disappointment. The earliest Miss Marple stories don't seem as good as the later ones, except-till now- 'The Body In The Library', which is very complex. I knew this should be a Miss Marple mystery but she doesn't appear throughout most of the book. For another thing, the story takes place in the village of Lymstock, so I kept wondering how Marple was to be brought into the picture. For a few moments I had thought that there must have been a mistake as there wasn't enough scope fo More...

Having enjoyed The Body in the Library last summer, I thought I'd start my summer off with another Agatha Christie novel. I must say, I really liked this one.

Although it's considered part of the Miss Marple mystery series, Miss Marple doesn't appear until the last quarter of the book. Instead the novel follows Jerry Burton who moves to the quiet village of Lymstock after suffering an injury. When some vicious anonymous letters begin to plague the town, Burton and his sister watch as a murder mys More...

Another Christie re-read, first read in 1976. THE MOVING FINGER hails from Christie's 'golden age,' and was published in 1942 in the US and in England in 1943, one of the rare instances when US publication of a Christie novel preceded UK publication. Since in most Christie chronologies it appears after THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY, THE MOVING FINGER thus marks the third appearance in a novel of Miss Jane Marple.

02/24/11: Enjoyed my re-read very much - this is one of Christie's most engaging novels ab More...

There are 2 reasons why I love Agatha's books.
First, because of her brilliant storytelling and unsuspected endings.
Second, for her charming side; when she wrote unexpected yet poignant love stories in the middle of the chaotic murders.
As I am actually romantic at heart, I appreciate her second talent more.
The Moving Finger spanned around the quiet town of Lymstock and the mysterious malicious letters by anonymous poison pen writer. I was touched by Megan Hunter innocence rather than the maliciou More...

Hrm... this was my first Agatha Christie book and it shall certainly NOT be my last! Currently, it is 2:30 in the morning. I had planned to go to bed at midnight, but I foolishly (yet wisely) picked up "The Moving Finger". I have had to go to the bathroom for the last 20 minutes did not get off the couch because I simply could NOT put this book down let alone go to bed! From about page 95 (in the 195 page version that I read) onward, I had suspected a certain character to be the "Poison Pen". My More...

I gave this book four stars because it is one of the few detective stories that took me by surprise. I was a little tired of continually dozing over Steppenwolf and wanted a light read so I borrowed my sister's Miss Marple collection. While The Moving Finger isn't the kind of great literature that will change the world, it is nonetheless a well-written book.

I think Agatha Christie understands better than most other mystery writers that readers - or at least some of them - will always try to figu More...

This was a fun Agatha Christie read. She has a lot of different "flavors" to her novels, and I would say that this was enjoyable, lighthearted, and short. It had a conversational tone and I enjoyed reading through the main protagonist. The mystery was not very deep or surprising and it wasn't suspenseful, but it was interesting enough to enjoy.

I'd like to add that I've been wary of reading Miss Marple books (I love Poirot!) because I'm not sure I like the image of a meddling old woman, but that More...

The Burton siblings, Jerry and Joanna, move to the peaceful village of Lymstock where nothing ever happens so that Jerry can recover from a flying accident. The tranquility is disturbed by a poison pen whose venom is directed at everyone in the village. The townspeople are disturbed but Jerry and Joanna are sophisticated enough to laugh it off - that is, until one note provokes a suicide.

Miss Marple gives a guest appearance but is a more or less perfunctory character. The story is given the grea More...

Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna are both sophisticated urbanites, whose natural environment is the big city. But alas, Jerry's an RAF pilot and he's had a pretty bad crash. He's well on his way to recovery, but his doctor recommends total peace and quiet. Ideally, he should bury himself in the country for a while, until he regains his strength.

This is how the two wind up in Lymstock, a sleepy country village. Except, it turns out Lymstock is not as quiet as they thought it would be. Someone i More...

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I'd forgotten how funny is this introduction to eternally elderly Miss Marple, even to the last words "Joanna's little joke" p181. (view spoiler)[ Her wedding present is a dog and two leads, one for her brother's new adoring wife - best intentions in 1942. (hide spoiler)] Page one, I remembered who penned vicious letters that disrupt quiet peace of Lymstoc More...

The Moving Finger is billed as a Miss Marple story, but in actual fact the diminutive, unassuming crime solver only pops up in the last quarter of the book, and even then her appearance is brief. Instead the book is narrated by Jerry, a former pilot who has been badly injured and moves to the country to convalesce, alongside his sister Joanna. As you might expect, their planned retreat is anything but relaxing, as they find themselves living in a village full of scandal, its residents plagued by More...

I like this book, and when I was growing up it was one of my favorite Agatha Christie mysteries, but it does have some serious flaws.

1. Miss Marple is at most a bit character, for all she's the one who cracks the case.
2. Of all Agatha Christie's many sexist, avuncular, paternalistic characters, the narrator of The Moving Finger is one of the worst. And he's supposed to be likable and relatable! (Er, one assumes.)
3. The book includes one of those silly "ugly-duckling-made-over-into-a-swan" moment More...

Ok, here's the deal. This book took me an incredibly long time to read. At first I found the plot impossibly slow moving, despite the fact that I loved the characters and the era. I'd seen the movie, and was expecting Miss Marple to come in early, and when after a couple of hundred pages she hadn't made an appearance, I finally wrote it off as a tv adaptation, and figured it was never a Marple book to begin with. Finally on about page 350, Miss Marple waltzes in, knitting and solves the case in More...

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Inicialmente, Lymstock parece a típica aldeia pacífica e sossegada. Contudo, o leitor depressa se apercebe que algo muito sinistro se passa por detrás desta fachada de perfeição rural. Que mistérios esconde esta pacata aldeola?


Como é óbvio, cabe à velhinha adorável – mas assustadoramente perspicaz – Miss Marple deslindar este enigma aparentemente insolúvel. Como grande fã desta personagem, tenho pena que esta tenha sido um interveniente di More...

As with Lord Peter Wimsey, I'm a sucker for a murder mystery set in 'simpler times' with lovely descriptions of food/clothing. This novel is told from the perspective of a young man, injured during World War II ordered by his doctor to spend time recuperating in a quiet country village. He rents a house with his sister and they set forth, only to find their village of choice harbours a poison pen and eventually a murderer. Miss Marple makes a late entry in the story, saving the day, and it is fu More...

I don't know why they call this Ms. Marple, she isn't in it hardly at all (in fact, I wouldn't have missed her if she hadn't been in it)
The characters weren't quite as typical of Agatha Christie's small towns as usual (But I stress the quite) and Jerry was very likeable as was his sister and Megan and Ms. Emily but I was left wishing that the mystery had been a little more difficult, it kind of took a back seat to the romance (which was very interesting but I normally don't read mysteries for r More...

Christie claimed this is her best work, and I kind of agree. And Then There Were None and Cat Among The Pigeons are my personal favorite so far, and now this has joined the rank! There are almost everything in The Moving Finger. The spiteful anonymous letters, quiet peaceful little village as the background, murders, attempted murder and budding romances. What more could a girl ask for in a book?! I love the couples and are very glad they find each other and settle down nicely at the end. Miss M More...