{"id":24591,"date":"2025-05-07T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24591"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:11:47","slug":"the-moving-finger-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24591","title":{"rendered":"The Moving Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Moving Finger<\/em> (1942) Agatha Christie<\/a> (Miss Marple)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

\u2018I can see you are a very clever young man\u2014but not quite enough confidence in yourself. You ought to have!\u2019 <\/p>\n

Joanna gave a loud hoot. \u2018For goodness\u2019 sake don\u2019t encourage him to feel like that. He thinks quite enough of himself as it is.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Be quiet, Joanna,\u2019 I said. \u2018Miss Marple understands me.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018I suppose you don\u2019t know London very well?\u2019 I said to Megan. <\/p>\n

\u2018Yes, I do,\u2019 said Megan. \u2018I always went through it to school. And I\u2019ve been to the dentist there and to a pantomime.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018This,\u2019 I said darkly, \u2018will be a different London.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018No,\u2019 I said. \u2018There\u2019s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will… God doesn\u2019t really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We\u2019re so very busy punishing ourselves.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Jerry Burton, Joanna Burton, Megan Hunter, Aim\u00e9e Griffith, Owen Griffith, Richard Symmington, Elsie Holland, Agnes Woddell, Maud Dane Calthrop, Miss Emily Barton, Mr. Pye, Florence Elford, Miss Partridge, Inspector Graves, Superintendent Nash, Mona Symmington, Miss Marple<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Moving Finger (1942) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple) \u2018I can see you are a very clever young man\u2014but not quite enough confidence in yourself. You ought to have!\u2019 Joanna gave a loud hoot. \u2018For goodness\u2019 sake don\u2019t encourage him to feel like that. He thinks quite enough of himself as it is.\u2019 \u2018Be quiet, Joanna,\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[191,30,668,190,292,33,8,742,41],"tags":[228,229,693,898],"class_list":["post-24591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-physical-health","category-reread","tag-agatha-christie","tag-miss-marple","tag-older-protagonist","tag-ww-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6oD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20899,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20899","url_meta":{"origin":24591,"position":0},"title":"The Moving Finger","author":"Michelle","date":"May 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Moving Finger (1942) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple) This is the third Miss Marple mystery, and one I've reread multiple times, yet this time through I picked up some things I'd not noticed before. 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