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The Moving Finger is a work of
detective fiction by
Agatha Christie and first published in the US by
Dodd, Mead and Company in
1942 and in UK by the
Collins Crime Club in June
1943. The UK edition retailed at seven
shillings and
sixpence. It features the elderly
detective Miss Marple.
Jerry and Joanna Burton, disaffected siblings from London society, take a country house in idyllic Lymstock so that Jerry can rest from injuries received in a wartime plane crash. They are just getting to know the town's strange cast of characters when an anonymous letter arrives, rudely accusing the two of living in sin. They quickly discover that these letters have been recently circulating around town, indiscriminate and completely inaccurate. But when a suicide is committed over the content of one of them, things flare up.
Scotland Yard sends someone to investigate, but progress is slow until a townsperson calls up an expert of her own, who turns out to be
Miss Marple. During the journey of the book, the Burtons end up not only finding the answers, but themselves.
The book's title,
The Moving Finger, plays twice. The first is how the accusatory letters point blame from one town member to another, the second is from the addressing of the letter, which the Scotland Yard agent determines the envelopes were all "typed by someone using one finger" in order to avoid a recognizable 'touch.'(Wikipedia)
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01-10-2008, 11:17 AM
Agatha Christie - The Moving Finger
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