Can someone give me a summary of the book The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie?

Answer 1

SPOILERS so don't read this if you don't want to know the ending.

Jerry, a pilot recovering from an accident rents a cottage in a small village along with his sister Joanna.

They receive an anonymous letter making unfounded allegations about them, and discover that many people in the village have received similar letters.

The wife of a local lawyer commits suicide and is found to have received one such letter on the day of her death. The police investigate, but a servant in the lawyer's household is soon found murdered.

The minister's wife calls upon a friend, Miss Marple, to investigate, and she solves the crime, realising that the lawyer's wife was also murdered, by her husband, as he wanted to marry their nanny. The many anonymous letters were written as a cover for the crime, and the servant was killed as she realised that no letter had been delivered on the day of her mistress' death.

The lawyer is arrested for the crime. Jerry, meanwhile, prepares to marry the lawyer's stepdaughter, who he has befriended, and who helped Miss Marple to prove her stepfather's guilt in killing her mother.

Answer 2

"Poison pen letters are spread around the village of Lymstock, a village full of shameful secrets, and they don't cause much of a stir until one of the writer's victims commits suicide, leaving a note claiming that she couldn't go on any longer. But Miss Marple isn't convinced the writer has only contributed to her death by the poison-pen letter, and questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. She believes that this isn't just the work of a poison-pen, but also the work of a poisoner. "

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