The Moving Finger
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Read by James R. Hedrick
Bruce Brainerd becomes ill at the country house of his fiancee, Millicent Porter. He is put under the care of a trained nurse, Vera Deane, the night nurse of Craig Porter, who is a paralytic from the effects of an airplane encounter in France. The next morning Bruce Brainerd is found with his throat cut. Who commited the crime? As the plot unfolds, a possible motive is revealed for Nurse Deane to have killed him, and she was in the next room. Then we see that Hugh Wyndham, in love with Dorthy Deane, might be the criminal. The police are convinced that Alan Noyes, who disappeared the morning of the murder, is the guility man. One after another are various persons under a cloud, but the real murderer is not revealed until 'the moving finger' tells the truth. - Summary by NY Times quoted in Book Review Digest, 1919 (6 hr 46 min)
Chapters
Visions | 7:54 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Tragedy | 16:20 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Testimony | 18:06 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
More Testimony | 28:21 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Dorothy Deane, ''Society Editor'' | 15:54 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Wall Between | 18:14 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
At Thornedale Lodge | 16:36 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Many Inventions | 27:07 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
In the Attic | 18:50 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Black-Edged Card | 17:57 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Mrs. Porter Grows Inquisitive | 19:10 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Detective Mitchell Asks Questions | 21:23 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Red Herring | 21:23 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Pro and Con | 20:56 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Edged Tools | 18:55 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Hare and Hounds | 23:20 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Vera Receives a Letter | 15:57 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Counterfeit Bank Note | 21:51 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The First Shot | 9:38 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
KA | 7:38 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Blind Man's Buff | 16:26 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
''The Moving Finger Writes — '' | 9:52 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Out of the Maze | 14:34 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Reviews
Melanie
A bit convoluted and strange characters. It is hard to believe some of the motivations of the characters. Worth a listen if you are bored.