The Moving Finger

Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881 - 1935)

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

Genre(s): Detective Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Visions James R. Hedrick
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Play 02 Tragedy James R. Hedrick
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Play 03 Testimony James R. Hedrick
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Play 04 More Testimony James R. Hedrick
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Play 05 Dorothy Deane, ''Society Editor'' James R. Hedrick
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Play 06 The Wall Between James R. Hedrick
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Play 07 At Thornedale Lodge James R. Hedrick
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Play 08 Many Inventions James R. Hedrick
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Play 09 In the Attic James R. Hedrick
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Play 10 The Black-Edged Card James R. Hedrick
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Play 11 Mrs. Porter Grows Inquisitive James R. Hedrick
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Play 12 Detective Mitchell Asks Questions James R. Hedrick
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Play 13 The Red Herring James R. Hedrick
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Play 14 Pro and Con James R. Hedrick
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Play 15 Edged Tools James R. Hedrick
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Play 16 Hare and Hounds James R. Hedrick
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Play 17 Vera Receives a Letter James R. Hedrick
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Play 18 The Counterfeit Bank Note James R. Hedrick
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Play 19 The First Shot James R. Hedrick
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Play 20 KA James R. Hedrick
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Play 21 Blind Man's Buff James R. Hedrick
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Play 22 ''The Moving Finger Writes — '' James R. Hedrick
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Play 23 Out of the Maze James R. Hedrick
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