Soon after, the Grancys moved out of their New York City townhouse to a rural estate, where their friends gathered every Sunday in the Grancys’ library. The painting glorified her beauty, portraying her exactly as Mr. Grancy commissioned his friend Claydon, an artist, to paint a portrait of Mrs. Grancy, and in return, he brought out her youthful beauty. Grancy, and they marveled at how beautiful she was. Grancy’s first wife was self-centered and controlling, which made him miserable when she died, and Mr. Grancy was her husband’s support system and his sole source of happiness.

Grancy dies, the unnamed narrator (a friend of the Grancys) is shocked.

You can get hold this engaging murder mystery via the following links.When Mr. There are not many actual clues – and at one point there is a definite diversionary tactic used, but it should be possible, taking account of the personalities involved, to get at the right solution. Most of the characters are likeable and there is a romantic sub-plot. We do not actually meet Miss Marple until later on in the book, but once she is on the case, a satisfactory outcome is guaranteed. Something has to be done – the police are baffled so Mrs Dane Calthrop, the vicar’s wife – decides to call in an ‘expert’ and that expert is Miss Marple. Of course, this being an Agatha Christie murder mystery, things are not quite that simple and – again inevitably – the deaths do not stop there. It would appear that one of the letters has hit the mark, and the recipient, unable to face the disgrace, has committed suicide. Jerry and Joanna soon become embroiled in an outbreak of poison pen letter writing, and distasteful and distressing as this may be, it is nevertheless a shock when a tragedy occurs. It has a cosy, slightly claustrophobic feel Agatha Christie so deftly evokes when she places a number of stock characters – the vicar, the doctor, the frustrated spinster etc. The Moving Finger is one of a handful of Agatha Christie murder mystery novels that is written in the first person by a man (other than Hastings, that is.)įirst published in 1942, it is set in the village of Lymstock whence injured war hero Jerry Burton and his sister go to live after Jerry’s flying accident.

The moving finger by agatha christie