How long does it take to read The Moving Finger?
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Miss Marple
Previous: The Body in the Library Next: A Murder Is Announced
About 4 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1942. 224 pages, about 61,600 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 115 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.
Subjects: Fiction, Women detectives, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, English fiction, Marple, Jane (Fictitious characters)
