Miss Marple · Book 4
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.
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