- Agatha Christie
🇬🇧 Hi! How are you doing? Today I'm here with a novel from English Literature.
Check out my last review about Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
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Today's reviews will be about the novels The Moving Finger and Mrs McGinty's Dead by the British author Agatha Christie.
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The first book was published in 1942 in the US and 1943 in the UK, it's part of the series of book including the character of Ms Marple.
It sees the Burtons siblings as main characters. They arrive in the small town of Lymstock in Devon, but soon receive an anonymous letter accusing them of being lovers, not siblings, writing bad things about both of them.
They don't seem to be the only people receiving these kind of letters, though, and soon a prominent resident is found dead with one of those letters found next to her.
The novel features an eldery Miss Marple in a minor role this time. She enters the story in the final quarter of the book, after that the police couldn't solve the case.
The second book instead, was first published in 1952.
The novel sees Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver as main characters.
The story is a "village mystery" and is notable for its wit and comic detail, something that we didn't see much in his stories of the 30s and 40s.
Poirot is sent to a little town to investigate about a woman's death, Mrs McGinty, and to verify that the man that was accused of murdering her, Bentley, a roommate of this lady is really at fault.
He was sentenced to death penalty with this accusation.
Will he be able to find out the truth? Was it really Bentley who killed Mrs McGinty?
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It's my third time reading something from Agatha Christie.
For The Moving Finger I didn't expect that plot twist at the end to be honest. So it surprised me for good. As a first experience with Ms Marple, it wasn't bad. I quite liked it.
Instead Mrs McGinty's Dead was okay, but I prefer the "younger" Poirot.
I wasn't expecting who the guilty one was to be honest. But I couldn't stand that person, so I'm glad of it hahah really liked this book (:
I liked them both and they're recommended: 4/5!

