The Moving Finger

A Miss Marple Mystery

De: Agatha Christie

Narrado por: Richard E. Grant

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.

A truly excellent narrator

Highly enjoyable, very well done. This is one of the best narrators I've heard for Agatha Christie's work, or even any audio books. He does all the individual voices, with consistent, believable accents, and isn't too insipid when he speaks the women's lines. His pace is very good, nice and even, neither too fast nor too slow. And I can't remember his mispronouncing anything. Even his French accent was lovely, though he didn't get to use it much, and I can tell because my mother was French. Now I kind of want to go and find everything else he's read and see what I might like to try next.

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.

Richard E Grant is a wonderful narrator

The narration by REG added so much to the
story. It makes such a difference to have an actor of his caliber reading.

Marple-lite, but fun!

There is extremely little Marple in this book, but I really really like our viewpoint character, and most of the other characters as well.

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.