54 pages • 1 hour read
The Moving Finger
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Background
Series Context: The Miss Marple Series
The Moving Finger is the third novel in Christie’s Miss Marple book series, which is named after their heroine, Jane Marple. The first books in the series are Murder at the Vicarage and The Body in the Library. The Moving Finger is followed by 10 more Miss Marple mysteries, including A Murder is Announced and The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side. Miss Marple also makes numerous appearances in Christie’s short story collections The Thirteen Problems and The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.
The Moving Finger is a standalone story and the reader does not need to read the first two novels to follow the plot. Agatha Christie used different points of view in her Miss Marple books, with some being narrated from a third-person perspective and others using the first person. The Moving Finger is told from the perspective of Jerry Burton, a character unique to this novel.
As in the other books of this series, in The Moving Finger only Miss Marple can accurately piece together the clues to solve the mystery and bring a killer to justice.
