There are many clues that I think are clearing things up, but I also felt more confused than ever. At around the 80% mark, all I could think was that this mystery was super convoluted. This mystery is Agatha Christie at her very best, full to the brim of complex psychologies, shrouded intentions, and a little old lady taking everything in whilst knitting in a corner. And there’s Miss Marple, enjoying a fortnight’s vacation in a nostalgic childhood fave, unable to shake the uneasy feeling that something’s off somehow and that she must intervene in some way, but she isn’t quite sure how.įuelling up with coffee and optimism as I turn to a brand new chapter in my detective notebook! There’s a team from Scotland Yard investigating a series of highly sophisticated robberies where respectable persons seem to be involved until an ironclad alibi reveals them innocent. There are a number of personalities staying at this hotel, some of whom have rather intriguing connections to each other. There was a gorgeous Edwardian-style hotel where everything feels genteel yet an undercurrent warns that things aren’t quite as they seem. (You can read my entire pride-before-the-fall journey with that Marple mystery here.)Īt Bertram’s Hotel had my head spinning from the get-go. It was only later in the book that I realized my theories were no longer holding up, and my chances of solving that mystery may be rather slimmer than I’d initially thought. I’d thought The Moving Finger simple at first I was even confident for much of the book that I knew who the baddie was and why. Besides, I said, look at those yummy tea cakes on the cover! How hard can solving this mystery be? The Queen of Crime will not best me twice, I said.
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