The Moving Finger.
"It all began with those mysterious, threatening letters...": First edition of Agatha Christie's The Moving Finger
The Moving Finger.
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
$1,200.00
Item Number: 143554
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942.
First American edition of Christie’s classic murder mystery, which preceded the first English edition by 11 months. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket with professional restoration.
"Beyond all doubt the puzzle in The Moving Finger is fit for experts. The author is generous with her clues. Anyone ought to be able to read her secret with half an eye – if the other one-and-a-half did not get in the way. There has rarely been a detective story so likely to create an epidemic of self indulgent kicks" (The Times Literary Supplement). "The Moving Finger has for a jacket design a picture of a finger pointing out one suspect after another and that's the way it is with the reader as chapter after chapter of the mystery story unfolds" (Toronto Daily Star).
