{"id":383,"date":"2006-01-13T21:52:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=383"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:43:04","slug":"christie_agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/01\/christie_agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>Moving Finger, The<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Agatha Christie novel adapted for radio, this time as a five-parter (2.5 hours): <strong><cite>The Moving Finger<\/cite><\/strong>, in which a friend calls Miss Marple in after a spate of poison-pen letters results in a death. Judging by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0451201167\/\">the reviews on Amazon<\/a>, in the novel Miss Marple doesn&#8217;t show up until fairly late; the play restructures matters so it starts with her arrival, and she gets a recap from the novel&#8217;s point-of-view character. This worked fine for me, but may be distracting for those who read the novel first. <\/p>\n<p>This is a nicely psychological mystery, and while I guessed whodunnit fairly early (I may be getting used to the way that Miss Marple, or perhaps Agatha Christie, thinks), I found it generally satisfactory. The romantic subplot at the end was decidedly not to my taste, but at least it was over quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Agatha Christie novel adapted for radio, this time as a five-parter (2.5 hours): The Moving Finger, in which a friend calls Miss Marple in after a spate of poison-pen letters results in a death. Judging by the reviews on Amazon, in the novel Miss Marple doesn&#8217;t show up until fairly late; the play restructures &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/01\/christie_agatha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>Moving Finger, The<\/cite> (radio play)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,6,111],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miss-marple","category-mystery","category-radio-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}