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The Moving Finger

M. G. Leonard · 17 Sept 2025

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  1. Our reading

    Agatha Christie's The Moving Finger has a terrible title.

    Their wordsLet’s start with the title. I think it is terrible. If it was called something like The Poisoned Pen, the book might be better known.

  2. Our reading

    Poison-pen letters in The Moving Finger are the equivalent of today's social media trolling.

    Their wordsSending poison pen letters is an old fashioned thing, but they come bang up to date if you think of them as the equivalent of social media trolling. The impact on people’s lives of complete falsehoods being spread about them is devastating.

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