The Moving Finger (by Agatha Christie)

We have a large collection of Agatha Christie novels, many of them bought second-hand when my sons were still living here. I still haven’t read them all, and am currently working my way through some of the unread selection. I have found some of them a bit tedious to read, but others are gripping. I’ve just finished ‘The Moving Finger’, and it’s definitely in the latter category!

The story is told in the first person by a young man called Jerry Burton. He is a pilot who was badly injured in a...