Pre-Owned The Moving Finger (Hardcover) 9781579126940

from jrsearcher

Miss Marple doesn't come in until the last third of the book, and even at that point, she's still a secondary character.The foreshadowing was interesting (but didn't help me "solve" the mystery)I had to skip to the back and see "whodunnit" before I could finish reading.

from LARA335

Slightly creepy entry (but maybe because I was listening to an old radio play rather than reading the novel). Miss Marple gets up to speed with a village gossiping about a suicide perhaps caused by a flurry of poison pen letters. A wounded airman becomes interested in a young woman who dresses li...

from bke

Not really a Miss Marple mystery. Marple doesn't appear until about 80% of the way through and then as a cameo role. She then appears at the end to wrap everything up. It was like she was added as an afterthought so it could be a "Miss Marple Mystery." Really, Christie could have inserted any of ...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

Jerry Burton (a pilot recuperating) and his sister Joanna have let a house in the quiet village of Lymstock.... Soon they are victims of poison pen letters, as are most of their neighbors.When the mother of the odd & unwanted young Megan commits suicide and her maid is poisoned, the village is th...

from RubyScarlett

I loved the narrator in this. His interactions with the rest of the cast are absolutely priceless. I love that Christie excels at creating eccentric characters that serve their purpose extremely well. Joanna is quite an exuberant woman and I loved the dichotomy between her and her brother. Some r...