The Moving Finger sometimes feels a little like Christie told her publishers they would get a new Miss Marple, but when she wrote the mystery, she only remembered at the end that it was meant to be a Miss Marple book. Aside from that, I actually really enjoyed this story. Having the narrator be someone secondary to the actual plot made it much more interesting to get to know the characters surrounding the crimes being committed. I found myself genuinely pulled along by the mystery and making guesses about the crime similarly to the village. I think that if it had been a proper Marple story, it would have probably been over in a chapter or two.

I also really enjoyed the narration of the audiobook I listened to, it was a lot easier this time to tell people apart since a lot of the characters were women.