![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The choice of narrator was odd, but I didn’t mind it too much, and Jerry’s sister Joanna might be my favorite Christie character to date. When he shares his observations with the odd old lady (why hello Miss Marple!) staying with the vicar and his wife, she helps them all expose the true culprit. When one of these letters lead to an apparent suicide and then a murder, Jerry, the narrator, begins to take an interest in the case. He moves with his fashionable sister to a small rural town where there is an anonymous letter writer sending nasty letters to everyone. The story in this is a first person narration from the perspective of a young man who has been injured in a plane crash. Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, The title of The Moving Finger comes from a translation of poetry by Omar Khayyám: That being said, I am really enjoying the books, and this is probably my favorite full length novel so far, despite one very large quibble (more on that later), and the fact that Miss Marple’s role in the story is fairly small. The more books I read, the more I realize that with some exceptions, my love from Miss Marple has likely stemmed from the fact that I have watched all of Agatha Christie’s Marple at least twice. “To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick….You’ve got to make people look at the wrong thing and in the wrong place” ![]()
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