Don’t you feel that some fictional characters are just too unreal to be … well, unreal? Have you ever met a character in some novel that is so quirky that you imagine the author had to have met or known someone with just those kinds of quirks in order to write a character like that?

Such is the case with one particular character in Agatha Christie’s The Moving Finger. Megan is that character’s name and she isn’t the only distinct female player in this particular novel. In fact, the variety of women we meet in The Moving Finger leads us to wonder if exploring female complexities of nature was a purposeful theme in this particular work of Christie’s.