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THE
MOVING
FINGER
 
 
AGATHA CHRISTIE
 
 
BANTAM BOOKS
 
TORONTO · NEW YORK · LONDON ' SYDNEY
 
 
THE MOVING FINGER
A Bantam Book I published by, arrangement with
Dodd, Mead tv Company
 
Agatha Christie Hardcover Collection/October 1983
 
All rights reserved.
Copyright 1942 by Agatha Christie Mallowan,
Copyright
      © renewed 1970 by Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Endpapers designed by Peggy Skycraft.
Book design by Barbara N. Cohen.
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ISBN 0553350099
 
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THE MOVING FINGER
 
 
CHAPTER I
 
 
I have often recalled the morning when the first of the
anonymous letters came.
 
It arrived at breakfast and I turned it over in the idle way
one does when time goes slowly and every event must be
spun out to its full extent. It was, I saw, a local letter with a
typewritten address. I opened it before the two with London
postmarks, since one of them was clearly a bill, and on the
other I recognized the handwriting of one of my more tire-some
cousins.
 
It seems odd, now, to remember that Joanna and I were
more amused by the letter than anything else. We hadn't,
then, the faintest inkling of what was to come--the trail of
blood and violence and suspicion and fear.
 
One simply didn't associate that sort of thing with Lymstock.
I see that I have begun badly. I haven't explained Lymstock.
When I took a bad crash flying, I was afraid for a long time,
 
 
AGATHA CHRISTIE
 
in spite of soothing words from doctors and nurses, that I was
going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life. Then at
last they took me out of the plaster and I learned cautiously to
use my limbs, and finally Marcus Kent, my doctor, clapped
me on my back and told me that-everything was going to be
all right, but that I'd got to go and live in the country and lead
the life of a vegetable for at least six months.
"Go to some part of the world where you haven't any
friends. Get right away from things. Tak ............

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