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The Moving Finger
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Adrian
Lunchtime Listen 2024
And now it's only 3 years since I last read this. This was a really good version read by Richard E Grant, that was a lunchtime listen that lasted only two days despite being over 6 hrs long.
Given the number of times I have read the book and seen the Joan Hickson TV version, I obviously knew the story very well, but with a book as good as this it doesn't seem to matter, and so it wasn't in any way boring, in fact with some of Richard E Grant's voices it was quite amusing.

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Jazz
Another wonderful Christie classic! I'm sure I read it years ago, however I didn't remember it. So fooled me once, and fooled me twice.

The narrator is a young man recuperating from a terrible accident, so on doctor's orders, he and his sister retreat to the village of Lymstock for R&R. Though secrets usually remain locked away inside and are only gossiped about, this time a round of poison pen letters are circulating through the village with the worst accusations inside them. When they apparent
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Diane Lending
Nov 13, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Dec 23, 2014 rated it it was ok
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Feb 03, 2016 rated it it was ok
Shelves: kindle-reads
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Mar 11, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Daniele
Aug 31, 2021 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: mystery
Jade Levi
Mar 31, 2023 rated it liked it
Diane Lending
Jan 13, 2024 rated it it was amazing
Jess Penhallow
Jul 17, 2025 marked it as to-read
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Jeannie
Sep 01, 2025 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
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