'We have come down here,' I said sternly, 'for peace and quiet, and I mean to see we get it.'īut peace and quiet were the last things we were to have.and a little later on, another example. This is really the first time I have noticed her attempts at this style. This allows Christie to create "hanging endings" to chapters or parts of chapters. The narrator is Jerry Burton, and while for some of the narration we feel as if the events are occurring simultaneously with the narration, much of the style is retrospective. THE MOVING FINGER was written in 1942 and considered by Agatha Christie to be in her top 10 novels. Christie has been praised by critics for her believable male narrators and arguably Jerry is one of the best. We see events unfold from the view of Jerry Burton who is recuperating whilst recovering from an accident. Some do not stand the test of time, others do.’ ‘It is a great test,’ she added, ‘to re-read what one has written some seventeen or eighteen years later. Who could be writing the letters and why? Perhaps Miss Marple might be of help.Ĭhristie considered The Moving Finger to be one of her best novels. Once a village of trust, now all inhabitants are full of accusations. When one villager commits suicide and another is murdered, the village is plunged into suspicion and terror.
Those that live there enjoy the peace of rural life until a series of poison pen letters destroy the safety they took for granted. Lymstock is much like any other English village.
Publisher: Harper Masterpiece ed edition (October 14, 2010).
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