The Moving Finger

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The Moving Finger (Miss Marple #4)

by Agatha Christie

3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 · rating details · 7,572 ratings · 330 reviews

Narrator Jerry Burton, wounded pilot stumbling on two sticks, hopes to recuperate in quiet Lymstock with loyal fashionable London--loving sister Joanna--until vicious letters spread suspicion, then death. Mrs. Symmington is not the type to panic, but drinks cyanide, leaves a crumpled accusation of infidelity in the fireplace, and a torn scrap with "I can't go on." Her two...more

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Apr 17, 2012 Adela Cacovean rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"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."
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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

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May 13, 2013 Durdles rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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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 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 French exchange student's packed lunch with mine forcing me to dine off his pate sandwiches, for which I had not at that time acquired a taste, while he tucked into my cheese and tomatoes with evident relish. Still, I beat him at tennis later on. So I'd read The Moving Finger before and decided to read it again because I liked the cover of my Fontana paperback with the pestle and glass by Tom Adams which is laden with menace. Had I remembered the identity of the murderer? No. So it's safe to read these books every 40 years or so. The plot is ingenious, a grown-ups version of Enid Blyton's Mystery of the Spiteful Letters in which I'm sure I did spot the culprit (the only character who was new to the series but I may be mistaken).
TMF is quite a short book - only 160 pages and can be read in an afternoon. I learn that he American version is even shorter. Apparently the book was serialised in the USA a year before it was published in book form in the UK (1943) and the abridged version is still the only one available in the States due to The Wartime Official Secrets Act. The US version lacks the classified detail of the first chapters of the UK version and also some entire characters are missing from the US book. The background to Mr Burton's flying injury in a training accident and the subsequent loss of a leg and his testicles is completely absent as is the whole Chinese bouncing bomb interlude over which Miss Marple made such a fuss insisting on trying to knit a cover. Frankly I prefer the shorter version and it may have been that American wartime readers were not ready for the narrator's lack of stiff upper lip and resolve regarding his impotence. (Are you sure about this? Ed)(less)

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Jan 03, 2013 Christine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Dec 01, 2012 Priya rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Nov 20, 2012 Mike rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "The Moving Finger" is, within the Agatha Christie catalog that I've read, most comparable to "The Hollow." Each story features interesting, fleshed-out characters in a rural setting, and each has one of her two most famous detectives remain on the sidelines until deep into the story (it's Poirot in "The Hollow," and Miss Marple in "Finger).

I'm trusting Wikipedia when I quote Christie, who -- according to Wikipedia -- said of "The Hollow" that she "ruined [the novel] by the introduction of Poiro...more

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Jun 09, 2012 Patrick Hayes rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Sep 06, 2011 Elisha Condie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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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May 28, 2011 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Mystery Fans

Shelves: crime, fiction, mystery, novels, romance, suspense

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

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Jan 02, 2011 Kirsti rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mystery

"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

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Aug 22, 2010 Duncan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Aug 11, 2010 Candi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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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

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Jun 23, 2010 Laurel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The Moving Finger is a vintage Miss Marple novel, circa WWII, and that can never be a bad thing! However, were it not billed as a Marple on the cover, I would not have expected her--the novel is narrated amusingly by Jerry Burton, a "city slicker" fish-out-of-water in a small English village where he is recovering from a back injury sustained during a flying accident--he is an RAF pilot. Jerry and his equally charming sister Joanna play amateur sleuth as a series of poison pen letters turn deadl...more The Moving Finger is a vintage Miss Marple novel, circa WWII, and that can never be a bad thing! However, were it not billed as a Marple on the cover, I would not have expected her--the novel is narrated amusingly by Jerry Burton, a "city slicker" fish-out-of-water in a small English village where he is recovering from a back injury sustained during a flying accident--he is an RAF pilot. Jerry and his equally charming sister Joanna play amateur sleuth as a series of poison pen letters turn deadly, with a suicide and then a murder (or is that two murders??). The Burton siblings have no success, however, and Miss Marple is called in rather late in the day to solve the case.

I understand why Dame Agatha wanted this to be a Miss Marple novel--village scandal is her metier, after all. And I also understand why she doesn't appear until late in the action, since she solves the crimes almost at once. However, I think she could have been brought in earlier by having, perhaps, calls and letters from her Lymstock friend (the vicar's wife) to fill her in from the get-go, and her deciding she needs to go in person when the murder occurs...something along those lines, so that she doesn't seem an afterthought. Someone who didn't already know her reputation would wonder what she was doing in this novel!

Despite this rather awkward resolution, the novel is charming and so very "cozy"--lots of tea and village gossip! I thought I had the solution pegged and that it would be Megan's beautiful governess. I was wrong, although I almost had it--I was on the right track in terms of the letters as "smokescreen" for the murder of the inconvenient wife so that her husband could marry the governess; I simply had the wrong partner. And I can see why Christie chose the husband, so that there could be the clever twist of how and why the letters appeared to be from a woman but really couldn't be.

I also thought it a very good twist that we are told it's crucial that the letter to Joanna (Miss Burton) was addressed on its typed envelope to Miss BArton and the "a" changed to a "u" in handwriting. Christie doesn't spell out the reason for us, but she does give us enough information to deduce why--the envelopes were typed BEFORE any letters were sent (so as to then dispose of the incriminating typewriter), but then the Poison Pen wished to include the new girl in town, Joanna, and modified a pre-typed envelope (same address since Jerry and Joanna were subletting from Miss Barton!). I love that Christie plays fair but leaves the reader a few deductions to make. Touches like that really set her apart from mediocre imitators even when a novel isn't her very strongest.
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Oct 13, 2009 Chocolaa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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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

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Sep 19, 2012 Luffy Monkey D. rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Jun 18, 2012 Jessie Quinn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Agatha Christie fans, mystery fans, period piece fans

Shelves: 2012-reads, crimes-and-mysteries

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

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Feb 24, 2011 Philip rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Jan 13, 2013 Faa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Dec 19, 2011 Kim rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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May 21, 2011 Shinn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, detective, humour, rural, society, mystery

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

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Jun 22, 2012 Rachel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries

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

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Feb 11, 2009 Sun rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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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

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Jan 29, 2013 Rosario (http://rosario.blogspot.com/) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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 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 is sending nasty poison-pen letters to what seems like every single one of the villagers, accusing them of all sorts of things. The accusations are completely preposterous, but people have a way of saying "no smoke without fire", so the village is soon in turmoil. And then someone dies, a suicide, and not long after that, someone else in the same household is murdered. The police are on the case, but the vicar's wife thinks she might call in an expert, someone who knows more about wickedness than anyone else she knows. Wonder who that is?

I should make this plain from the first: this is barely a Miss Marple book. She shows up really late (way into disc 5 of 6, in the audiobook I was listening to), and she really doesn't do a great deal. However, I didn't particularly mind, as it was a really good one, anyway.

The plotting is solid and entertaining, with plenty of red herrings, and when the truth is revealed, you get a great a-ha! moment. I had my own theory, which was completely wrong, and clearly one into which Christie had skilfully maneouvered me without me noticing a thing. Probably amongst her best.

The cast of characters in the village was a really good one, as well. They're individual and quirky. I didn't like all of them, obviously, but all were interesting, and all had at their core at least a grain of truth. The only exception, I'm afraid, is Jerry's love interest. That romance left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, as this character was written as a strange and unbelievable cross between a small child and a loyal dog. Jerry is young himself, but the disparity in mental age made it all a bit icky. Still, Joanna gets a romance herself, as well, and that one I was very satisfied by, so not too bad.

The Moving Finger was first published in 1942, and was written during the war. Surprisingly,the only (and pretty oblique, at that) reference to the war is Jerry being an RAF pilot and having been injured. Other than that, nothing at all. There's even a trip to London where everything seems just fine, no rationing, no problems at all. I was intrigued by this. I find it hard to believe that it would have been like that in reality, so I'm guessing it was a conscious decision on Christie's part, possible to allow readers their escapism without them having to think about what was actually going on at the time?

MY GRADE: A B. Would be a B+ if it weren't for that icky romance.

AUDIOBOOK NOTES: As I run through my library's Agatha Christie's audiobooks, I've started to form preferences for the readers. James Saxton is definitely not my favourite. The voices he does for some characters (usually secondary characters, thanks heavens) are too often preposterous, over-the-top and annoying. His women are especially bad, working class women the worse.(less)

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Jan 16, 2013 Anne Toronto1 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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http://books.google.ca/books?id=UMgk5... Sample. Screen version starts trashy, booze and bare skin, but later costumes are lovely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoTOn...

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) Page one, I remembered who penned vicious letters that...more

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Apr 25, 2013 kit rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Jan 14, 2011 Sean rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Jun 27, 2009 Hannah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites

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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Dec 08, 2012 Mónica Silva rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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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

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Jan 10, 2013 Helen Privett rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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Jan 26, 2012 Linda Cee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

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

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Nov 05, 2012 mabesie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorite, calibre, reread-repeat

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

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