title: Poison Pen: A Forensic Handwriting Mystery
author: Sheila Lowe
description: If you're looking for a cozy mystery with no profanity or violence, you are likely to feel uncomfortablePoison Pen. This is a "medium-boiled" story of psychological suspense that attracts readers of books by authors such as Deborah Crombie, Tess Gerritsen, and Jonathan Kellerman.
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  # The Moving Finger
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Moving Finger
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # The Moving Finger
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter 1
  
  
  I have often recalled the morning when the first of the anonymous letters
  came.
  
  
  It arrived at breakfast and I turned it over in the idle way one does when
  time goes slowly and every event must be spun out to its full extent. It was,
  I saw, a local letter with a typewritten address. I opened it before the two
  with London postmarks, since one of them was clearly a bill, and on the other
  I recognised the handwriting of one of my more tiresome cousins.
  
  
  It seems odd, now, to remember that Joanna and I were more amused by the
  letter than anything else. We hadn't, then, the faintest inkling of what was
  to come - the trail of blood and violence and suspicion and fear.
  
  
  One simply didn't associate that sort of thing with Lymstock.
  
  
  I see that I have begun badly. I haven't explained Lymstock.
  
  
  When I took a bad crash flying, I was afraid for a long time, in spite of
  soothing words 