While not one of her best mysteries, the social comedy is delightful: the sophisticated townees the garrulous Mr. Clever touches include a memorable linguistic trick (“I can’t go on” – does this work in other languages?) and a second victim who saw nothing.Ĭhristie seems more interested in the people than the puzzle.
The deception is daring in its simplicity – but transparent if you tumble to it. The plot is quite slight there’s little detection, and only one criminal sub-plot. Hers is, as others have observed, a cameo performance: a mere 12 pages – and she really doesn’t need to be in the book.
The story is narrated by Jerry Burton, recuperating from a plane crash Miss Marple turns up three-quarters through, and then explains the mystery at the end. Finger is perhaps the quintessential ‘cosy’ Christie: a small English market town, 50 years behind the times respectable professional people (lawyers and doctors) and spinsters both male and female poison-pen letters deaths neatly off-stage (one suicide, one murder) and Miss Marple knitting pink fluffy woollen things in the corner.
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