This isn't the only story in which the narrative form makes it difficult to deal with the issue of the sort of climax surrounding who has got it right and has seen what is going on all along. She is not the type of character to flatter, so I think she meant it. Although Miss Marple solves the mystery in The Moving Finger, she does say that Jerry recounting his dream - what he has subconsciously deduced about the crime, is what had put her on the correct path. Miss Marple is an amateur too, of course, but an experienced amateur sleuth. I think that Christie might have meant this story to be about an amateur/novice finding themselves gifted as a detective and being what say, the vicar, Leonard could have been in Murder at the Vicarage, if, as one of our members suggested, he had solved the whole crime in that novel, rather than Miss Marple. I think there is a clue to what Christie intended when Miss Marple tells Jerry that he has a gift for unravelling mysteries, and that he just doesn't believe in himself enough.
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