Miss Marple #3
The Moving Finger
Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "The Moving Finger." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."
299 pages, Paperback
First published July 1,1942
This edition
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299 pages, Paperback
- Published
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January 1, 2012 by Harper Collins
- ISBN
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9780007120840
- ASIN
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0007120842
- Language
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English
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Jerry Burton
A pilot who was injured in a plane crash. After a long stint in hospital and upon the recommendation of his doctor, Marcus Kent, he seeks a quiet place for the last stage of healing. He narrates the story....
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Joanna Burton
Sister of Jerry, 5 years younger. She is very pretty and enjoys life, likes dancing and cocktails and love affairs and rushing about in high-powered cars. She accompanies her brother to Lymstock, leaving their usual home in London....
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Megan Hunter
Daughter of Mrs. Symmington from her first marriage. Age 20. One year home from boarding school. Coltish, usually shy....
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Aimée Griffith
The big and hearty sister of Owen; she lives with him in Lymstock. She is active in the town, and in years past fell in love with Mr. Symmington....
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Owen Griffith
Local doctor in Lymstock. He is dark, ungainly, and melancholy with awkward ways of moving but with deft, very gentle hands. He has a jerky way of talking and is rather shy....
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Richard Symmington
Thin and dry. Solicitor in Lymstock, second husband to Mona, father of two young sons, and stepfather of Megan....
About the author
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
