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dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Fun narration from a different perspective.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Absolutely superb novel. Various suspects and a very clever red herring!
Miss Marple only makes a brief appearance at the end so I'm not entirely sure I'd count it as a Marple novel. I almost wonder why she was included as it stands on its merits regardless.
Miss Marple only makes a brief appearance at the end so I'm not entirely sure I'd count it as a Marple novel. I almost wonder why she was included as it stands on its merits regardless.
I love reading Agatha Christie's books but this one was just not what I had expected. Miss Marple entered the story almost at the end! This book was more around the conversations taking place among many characters rather than just the murders taking place. Also, it had only two murders, to be precise.
fast-paced
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
4.5⭐️
I enjoy a classic mystery, and that's what you get when you read an Agatha Christie mystery. The Moving Finger was a Miss Marple mystery, though she didn't show up until toward the end. A poision-pen is writing letters to people in Lymstock. It seems everyone in the village is receiving a nasty letter, except for one person. Why has this person not received one?
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I enjoy a classic mystery, and that's what you get when you read an Agatha Christie mystery. The Moving Finger was a Miss Marple mystery, though she didn't show up until toward the end. A poision-pen is writing letters to people in Lymstock. It seems everyone in the village is receiving a nasty letter, except for one person. Why has this person not received one?
#StuttgartPublucLibrary #AgathaChristie #TheMovingFinger #Classics
challenging
dark
funny
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The main character and his sister are the most lovable scamps, and Ms. Marple only needs 10 pages to solve the crime. Absolutely love the plot of this one!
The word I would use to describe this story is 'average' - there was nothing particularly bad about it, in my opinion, but nothing particularly great either.
The good:
- Agatha Christie paints very vivid, distinct pictures of her characters, down to the little details and quirks in character. Though the usual types of characters do re-appear (such as nosy, gossipy, small town/village women), they usually have a function in the type of story that Christie tells.
- The plot was interesting enough to keep me reading, though did get dull in parts.
- I liked the unusual brother/sister combination of main character and side character. Joanna was an interesting character, and for the most part I liked Jerry and how Christie didn't make him interfere too much in the police work until the end when he became quite invested in one of the characters and that got him in their way a bit. It was realistic, I guess, and I appreciate that in a mystery story.
The not-so-good:
- the main character, Jerry, was very opinionated and often a little nasty with the things he thought about people, such as calling Megan 'horsey'.
- the sub-plot love story (between Jerry and a character) made me uncomfortable, as Jerry spends most of the story calling this character a child and being quite condescending to her.
- the who-dun-it part of the story was the predictable option, and didn't surprise me at all.
- Miss Marple was hardly in it. When Miss Marple features heavily in a story, I do quite enjoy her character and dialogue, so it was a shame to see her relegated to such a small place in this story - in fact, the police were on their way to solving it without her help at all.
Overall, I found it to be quite formulaic and dull in parts. I think I enjoy the adaptations of Agatha Christie's work more than the actual books themselves.
The good:
- Agatha Christie paints very vivid, distinct pictures of her characters, down to the little details and quirks in character. Though the usual types of characters do re-appear (such as nosy, gossipy, small town/village women), they usually have a function in the type of story that Christie tells.
- The plot was interesting enough to keep me reading, though did get dull in parts.
- I liked the unusual brother/sister combination of main character and side character. Joanna was an interesting character, and for the most part I liked Jerry and how Christie didn't make him interfere too much in the police work until the end when he became quite invested in one of the characters and that got him in their way a bit. It was realistic, I guess, and I appreciate that in a mystery story.
The not-so-good:
- the main character, Jerry, was very opinionated and often a little nasty with the things he thought about people, such as calling Megan 'horsey'.
- the sub-plot love story (between Jerry and a character) made me uncomfortable, as Jerry spends most of the story calling this character a child and being quite condescending to her.
- the who-dun-it part of the story was the predictable option, and didn't surprise me at all.
- Miss Marple was hardly in it. When Miss Marple features heavily in a story, I do quite enjoy her character and dialogue, so it was a shame to see her relegated to such a small place in this story - in fact, the police were on their way to solving it without her help at all.
Overall, I found it to be quite formulaic and dull in parts. I think I enjoy the adaptations of Agatha Christie's work more than the actual books themselves.