The Moving Finger

A Miss Marple Mystery

De: Agatha Christie

Narrado por: Richard E. Grant

Duración: 6 h y 23 m

Resumen del Editor

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger.

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous 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 says “I can’t go on,” but Miss Marple questions the coroner’s verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone—as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.

©1943 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers

Christie at her best!

What I like best about this story is the layers of plots, all intertwined and confusing the reader about motives and possibilities until the very end.

Excellent.

Loved it. The narration was wonderful and brought a lot of enjoyment to mystery. Lots of twist and turns throughout with a great surprise ending.

Excellent rendition of a favorite Agatha Christie

This old fashioned rather charming mystery was an unexpected pleasure after my string of English language best sellers and translations of dark Scandinavian thrillers, yet the story held my interest and the narrator was a delight.

No smoke without fire every one chimes, misdirection is the name of the game, 'murder could be easy' without Miss Marple

Big fan of Agatha Christie, loved the Joan Hickson movie of the moving finger. and then the more modern and ever so well done newer version with Julie Mckensie, the whole cast is great,
Loved them both
Spent a lot of time with the audible version, read by Richard Grant
I often fall asleep listening, and when I wake, I'm at a part I was unaware of,
now I'm enjoying discovering the layers, upon layers, always listening and asking, what was it that Agatha had that was so engaging so enduring, across cultures, generations, classes, etc.?
She wove dimensional stories that would continue to unfold

Fun and Clever Story

Loved this story. Fun and highly enjoyable. Agatha Christie is so clever and such a good writer. She creates a beautiful web of mystery for you to eagerly try to unravel before the end when it's done for you. This story is no exception.

Absolutely perfect

Loved everything about it. Performance is great story is fascinating. But isn’t sure how close it is to the actual book, since Ms. Marple was only mentioned in the last 40 mins of reading.

Great mystery

Over the years, I've watched movie and TV productions of Agatha Christie novels, most of which were great, but only recently started reading them and it's amazing how good they are! And I think this is one of the BEST! Add to that the great narration on this Audible recording and you have a wonderful listen! Highly recommended...

Wonderful!

Wonderful narrator! Thoroughly enjoyed this book. I will look for more books narrated by Richard E. Grant. Really superb.

Love it

My favorite Agatha Christie book yet. Characters are colorful and the story moves at a good pace.

My favorite Miss Marple Mystery

Would you listen to The Moving Finger again? Why?

Yes, The story line, characters and superb reading by Richard Grant make this an audiobook I would listen to again.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

The Moving Finger could almost be considered a stand-along book by Christie, as Miss Marple does not appear until Chapter 10. The characters were engaging, the story had more going on than just the murder mystery, and I found it quite enjoyable.

What does Richard E. Grant bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

His voice is perfection. He narrates quite well and does each of the different voices in a pleasant manner. Richard Grant does such an excellent job that I would actually seek out more audiobooks read by him.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The sweet romance between the main character/narrator Jerry and Megan. I really enjoy when there are interesting side stories going on within the main plot.