Author: Christie, Agatha
Genre: Mystery
Book Description (from amazon.com):
Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks… including The Moving Finger, which points Miss Marple to a small town and its shameful secrets, and to a most suspicious “suicide.”
My Read:
One might wonder what did the title "The Moving Finger" mean after reading the book. I think the following conversation quoted from the book might give us some clue. Here it goes:
"Miss Marple had resumed her fleecy knitting. 'You know,' she observed pensively, 'to commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.' 'The quickness of the hand deceives the eye?' 'Not only that. You've got to make people look at the wrong thing and in the wrong place-misdirection, they call it, I believe.'"
This book proves the common belief and surmise that when a person died suddenly without a proper cause the usual prime suspect would be the spouse. It's another good read of the Mystery Queen, Agatha Christie.
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