The Moving Finger has successfully been adapted for television, first with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple and more recently with Geraldine McEwan in the ITV adaptations. Christie has been praised by critics for her believable male narrators and arguably Jerry is one of the best. All 12 episodes starring Geraldine McEwan, a formidable, twin-setted presence in the series- Birmingham Evening Mail (UK). We see events unfold from the view of Jerry Burton who is recuperating whilst recovering from an accident. Some do not stand the test of time, others do.’ ‘It is a great test,’ she added, ‘to re-read what one has written some seventeen or eighteen years later. Geraldine McEwan stars as Agatha Christies sleuth on the hunt for a poison-pen writer in the village of Lymstock in this murder mystery. Who could be writing the letters and why? Perhaps Miss Marple might be of help.Ĭhristie considered The Moving Finger to be one of her best novels. Miss Marple: The Moving Finger (TV) is a film directed by Tom Shankland with Geraldine McEwan, James DArcy, Ken Russell, Frances de la Tour, Thelma Barlow. Once a village of trust, now all inhabitants are full of accusations. When one villager commits suicide and another is murdered, the village is plunged into suspicion and terror. Those that live there enjoy the peace of rural life until a series of poison pen letters destroy the safety they took for granted. The Moving Finger is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie which was first serialised in the US in Colliers Weekly in. Lymstock is much like any other English village.
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