![]() ![]() They quickly discover that these letters have been recently circulating around town, indiscriminate and completely inaccurate. They are just getting to know the town's strange cast of characters when an anonymous letter arrives, rudely accusing the two of being lovers, not siblings. Jerry and Joanna Burton, brother and sister from London society, take a country house in idyllic Lymstock so that Jerry can rest from injuries received in a wartime plane crash. The book takes its name from verse 51 of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam. The Moving Finger was first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in July 1942 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1943. ![]() ![]() She was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, England, Agatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, and went on to become one of the most famous writers in history, with mysteries like Murder at the Vicarage, Partners in Crime and Sad Cypress. Agatha Christie was a mystery writer who was one of the world's top-selling authors with works like Murder on the Orient Express and The Mystery of the Blue Train. ![]()
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