Agatha Christie's The Moving Finger
This is a satisfying mystery from a MYSTERY point of view, but not very satisfying as a Miss Marple story, because she’s barely in it and we don’t really get to see her at work! Anyway, in this one a young man and his sister take a house in the country so he can recover from an injury, and find themselves in the midst of a scandal involving nasty anonymous letters. The narrative voice here is enjoyable enough, if mildly sexist/patronizing (and I could do without the word “Jewess” in my novels, thanks), and even remembering some of the details, I was still surprised by several of the twists. But it needed more Miss Marple! A-/B+.
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