Agatha Christe’s The Moving Finger: A Spoiler-Free Review
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.
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Books in Order
While Hercule Poirot may be Agatha Christie’s most notorious sleuth, Miss Marple is a close second. Miss Marple is an unlikely, but astute detective. She’s an elderly woman from the small fictional village of St. Mary Mead, and she solves murders as a hobby wherever she goes. Miss Marple, having bright eyes and world class knitting skills, has put her excellent judge of character to use in many a quaint village, and has cleverly gotten to the bottom of murders of all sorts.
