- Paperback
- Publisher: fontana books (1971)
- ASIN: B002BBDANU
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.4 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 798 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Miss Marple is knitting her charm,
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This review is from: Moving Finger (Paperback)
The interest of this small detective story is not where we could think it should be. Miss Marple solves the problem in a very holmesian way : don't look for what is obvious but look for what is hidden by the smokescreen of the obvious. But the book reveals, describes and analyzes the reactions of a village and of the people in the village who are confronted to a series of anonymous letters. It shows how gossiping dominates and informs the minds of the people. It shows how these minds can be totally governed by old fears, perverse curiosity and jealousy in a way or another. It shows how idleness due to the lack of eventful developments in a village manages the life of people : when nothing happens in your village, the slightest little piece of news or observation of your neighbour becomes an essential topic. A criminal, here a murderer, can then use this functioning to build a smokescreen that will hide his own crime and send everyone, including the police, on a wrong track because they are going to follow the obvious and the obvious is what you can see, and when there is a smokescreen you can only see the smoke. It is well done, though regular readers of detective stories will know the solution practically from the very start. This genre is aging rather fast because it has developed so much that it has enlarged the ability of the readers to see the strings of the plot, even when these strings are covered with a smokescreen, and Agatha Christie is a real artist at leading us astray, if we just let ourselves be led, which is in a way an essential quality in a « good » reader.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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cosy village atmosphere and characters,
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This review is from: The Moving Finger (Audio Cassette)
In a forward Agatha Christie provided for a reprint of this book, she wrote of the pleasure it was to tackle one of the classic themes, and of the great pleasure she found in writing this book with its "cosy village atmosphere and characters". The classic theme here is the phenomenon of the Poison Pen. The book is one of her shorter mysteries but one of the most cunningly devised. Adept at constructing puzzles, she opts for presenting this one as a first person narrative. The narrator is a young man recuperating from a flying accident, told by his doctor that he must "go and live in the country and lead the life of a vegetable for at least six months". With his sister he rents a cottage in a small English village "of no importance whatsoever". Accordingly, when the poison pen letters begin circulating, it is this narrator, a stranger to the village, who decribes things as he sees them, retails all the local gossip, and reports everyone's suspicions about the writer of the letters. A murder and an apparent suicide follow, and we read of the efforts of the local police to investigate. Miss Marple thus is introduced late in the book and, of course, she proves better at solving the mystery than everybody else. You will be an astute and alert reader if you discover whodunit before Miss Marple reveals all.
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No smoke without fire!,
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This review is from: Moving Finger (Paperback)
No smoke without fire! It's the smoke(screen), I mean the anonymous letters, that blocked my eyes. I fixed the culprit as Megan. She has all the reason to hate other people, as she's the one ignored in her household even by her own mother. I was convinced by the fact that she went back home on the day Agnes was murdered and she's the one who found the body which was hided in such an impossible place. Then I was reassured as she refused Jerry Burton's proposal. But I was completely wrong, again! As Miss Marple put it, it's a simple case. But so well plotted!Highly recommend to all Agatha Christie fans.
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