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The Moving Finger
The Moving Finger
Oct 11, 2024 10:27 AM

Author:Agatha Christie,June Whitfield,Clare Corbett,Nicholas Boulton,Full Cast

The Moving Finger

Recuperating from a flying accident, Jerry Burton needs to take a break somewhere peaceful. He and his sister Joanna rent a house in the little village of Lymstock, where they know no-one and hope to be able to relax. Their quiet life is shattered, however, by the arrival of an obscene anonymous letter accusing them of impropriety. Jerry refuses to take it seriously and throws it on the fire. But during a routine check-up with the local GP, Doctor Griffiths, he soon discovers that theirs is by no means the first unpleasant missive: a number of other village residents have been similarly harassed. Suspicion is rife, and matters are brought to a head by the suicide of one of the letters' recipients. With the whole village in a state of shock, the vicar's wife decides to invite down an old friend with considerable experience of the darker side of human nature. Can Miss Marple's arrival in Lymstock cast light on events? And can she discover the culprit before more deaths occur? One of Agatha Christie's own favourite novels is dramatised with a full cast including Clare Corbett and Nicholas Boulton.

Reviews

A master storyteller, one of the first to write in cinematic style with razor-sharp images moving with kinetic force

—— Newsweek

Some of his characters the murderous yet repentant Pinkie in Brighton Rock and the mockingly elusive Harry Lime in The Third Man remain so vivid in the public consciousness that they are certain of immortality

—— Daily Mail

The Fallen Idol handles themes of guilt and deception, responsibility and disappointment, with precision, reflecting these adult ideas off an innocent child

—— Time Out

[The Third Man] Graham Greene's typically laconic and mordantly witty fable of crime, deceit and betrayal

—— Simon Callow , Guardian

No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene

—— The Times

An astonishing talent

—— JEFFERY DEAVER

Intelligent and gripping

—— JAMES PATTERSON

Liza Marklund is in a league of her own

—— HENNING MANKELL

An exceptionally well-crafted and suspenseful work

—— Daily Mirror
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