The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mystery

Agatha Christie

Mar 2013 · Miss Marple Mysteries Book 4 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Richard E. Grant

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Performance:5 Story:5. I loved so much the characters Christie described. There's so much variation, it looks strikingly like our modern understanding of neurodivergence at times. the book is so elegantly written and the characters have so much interesting about them that you love just hanging out with their quirks even while wondering "who done it".

About the author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

Richard E. Grant, in addition to extensive work on stage and television, has starred in such films as Gosford Park, Twelfth Night, Portrait of a Lady, Age of Innocence, The Player, Withnail and I, and Henry and June.