So delightful, that I can imagine Agatha Christie saying “Yes, by gosh, she’s got it!”Īs usual, we get the beautiful backdrop of quaint villages, whether they are Miss Marple’s very own St. She is absolutely delightful as Miss Marple. She is able to smile demurely while delivering a quick-witted come-back which her targeted person thinks is simply an observation.
I think that McEwan puts into the Miss Marple character the same patient grace that she seems most capable of conveying.
I have read reviews that state… essentially… that McEwan is NOT Miss Marple. In 2005, Great Britain (a Granada production) gave us yet another wonderful “television event.” For the purposes of this review, I will refer to these shows as the “Miss Marple”series… Yes, I know that before McEwan we had Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, and Joan Hickson, amongst several other actress who portrayed Miss Jane Marple, but for the purposes of this blog, McEwan is Miss Marple. (That last sentence will probably only make sense to those of you who have been lucky enough to see the first season of Mapp and Lucia… another cozy, although not a mystery, production.) Geraldine McEwan (the particular actress) brings a fresh portrayal of Miss Marple with almost the same mischievous glint in her expressive eyes as she displayed while portraying E.
The Moving Finger has successfully been adapted for television, first with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple and more recently with Geraldine McEwan in the ITV adaptations.Just recently, one of my very favorite actresses took a stab at portraying one of the most famous cozy mystery characters of all time… Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Christie has been praised by critics for her believable male narrators and arguably Jerry is one of the best. We see events unfold from the view of Jerry Burton who is recuperating whilst recovering from an accident. Some do not stand the test of time, others do.’ ‘It is a great test,’ she added, ‘to re-read what one has written some seventeen or eighteen years later. Who could be writing the letters and why? Perhaps Miss Marple might be of help.Ĭhristie considered The Moving Finger to be one of her best novels. Once a village of trust, now all inhabitants are full of accusations. When one villager commits suicide and another is murdered, the village is plunged into suspicion and terror. Those that live there enjoy the peace of rural life until a series of poison pen letters destroy the safety they took for granted. Lymstock is much like any other English village.
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