The moving finger
Ratings5
Average rating3.8
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Ratings5
Average rating3.8
"Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said: 'I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?"--Publisher description.
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I was totally drawn in from the beginning with Jerry Burton's narration, he's a bit of a numpty but that makes the character all the more believable. Once again I had no clue as to who was behind anything (no spoilers here) and certainly didn't expect the surprise guest (which, I now notice, Goodreads spoils).
Thoroughly recommended to all Christie fans. Once again I had the pleasure of reading a lovely old paperback with a beautiful cover, only spoilt by the glue having given up so half the book kept falling out!
That was candy. As I've come to expect from the Marple books, it took its time to lay out the characters, the lead up, the crime, the clues, and even more so than previously Marple herself and her crime solving insights were tacked on to the very, very end. But in this case, I felt more connected to the first person narrator, he seemed a little more empathetic, even if given the period it was written in there were a number of choice phrases to make a modern reader cringe. I think it was the surprise romantic subplots in the eleventh hour that tipped it for me, as silly as they were, it let the ending of a murder mystery be something other than scandalous/grim. Had a good time.
