The Moving Finger
- Published
- 1 January 1943
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9782702400500
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Moving Finger (1943, 224 pages), the third novel, is one of the two Marple books -- alongside A Murder Is Announced -- that Christie herself considered among her finest work in either the Marple or Poirot series. It followed The Body in the Library.
Key facts about The Moving Finger
The Moving Finger is a novel by Agatha Christie. Readers have had it since 1943. It runs to 224 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Moving Finger. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9782702400500 to find the main one.
The Moving Finger is book 4 of 14 in the Miss Marple series. The series has 14 published books. However, the series starts with The Murder at the Vicarage (1930).
Additionally, Agatha Christie writes Hercule Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence and Superintendent Battle as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories is the latest published Agatha Christie book on file, from 1979.
About Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was an English author who became the best-selling novelist in history, with an estimated two billion copies of her books sold worldwide — a sales record beaten only by the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. See every Agatha Christie book in order.
Its place in Miss Marple
The Moving Finger is book 4 in the Miss Marple series. It follows The Body in the Library. It is followed by A Murder Is Announced. See the full Miss Marple reading order.
Jane Marple is an elderly, unmarried amateur detective living in the small English village of St Mary Mead, and Agatha Christie's quiet rebuttal to the idea that a detective needs to be dashing, professional, or even taken seriously. Marple solves murders by pattern-matching them against a lifetime of village gossip and human folly — she has, she insists, seen every possible motive for murder already play out over a church fete or a dispute about the vicar's roses. Christie wrote twelve Marple novels between 1930…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9782702400500