"The title of Agatha Christie's novel The Moving Finger comes from the line ""The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on"" in which poem?"
The Moving Finger murderer." Another said this was "One of the few times Christie gives short measure, and none the worse for that." The male narrator was both praised and panned. The book takes its name from verse 51 of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám": The poem, in turn, refers to Belshazzar's feast as related in the Book of Daniel, where the expression "the writing on the wall" originated. The title shows in the story figuratively and literally. The anonymous letters point blame from one town resident to another. The Scotland Yard agent determines the envelopes were all "typed
The Moving Finger into the story quickly, begins without the leisurely introduction to the narrator's back-story that is present in the British edition, and lacks much of the characterisation throughout. Christie admitted that this book was one of her favourites, stating, "I find that another [book] I am really pleased with is "The Moving Finger". It is a great test to re-read what one has written some seventeen or eighteen years before. One's view changes. Some do not stand the test of time, others do." The Moving Finger The Moving Finger is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published