- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: UK General Books; Television tie-in edition edition (Feb 3 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0007191014
- ISBN-13: 978-0007191017
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,590,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A model detective story, there is never a dull moment.' The Times 'The suspense is agonising.' Daily Mail 'Miraculously fresh from a vintage pen.' Sunday Dispatch 'Without the female of the species, indeed, detective fiction would be in a bad way. Miss Christie never harrows her readers, being content to intrigue and amuse them.' Times Literary Supplement 'The great mistress of the last-minute switch is at it again! even the experts have given up any attempts to out-guess Miss Christie.' New Yorker 'Precisely what one expects: the most delicious bamboozling possible in a babble of bright talk and a comprehensive bristle of suspicion all adeptly managed to keep you much too alert elsewhere to see the neat succession of clues that catch a murderer we never so much as thought of.' New York Herald Tribune
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For an instant, the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Hidden crime within quintessential British ordinariness,
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This review is from: 450 from Paddington: A Miss Marple Mystery (Audio CD)
The 4:50 from Paddington, the life of a country house and a crime which didn't even convincingly take place...until the intrepid Miss Marples reveals all.Get the atmosphere of this novel: in her works Agatha Christie demonstrates her great flair for creating subtle plots out of a wide range of settings: some books, as in 'Death on the Nile', are 'exotic'; others, such as the events surrounding as ordinary an event as a commuter train from Paddington Station, are seemingly prosaic...until one gets below the surface.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Back Loaded Plot,
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This review is from: 4: 50 from Paddington (Audio Cassette)
4.50 to Paddington takes a while to get started with much of the book centered around trying to decide if a murder actually took place. Once that it's decided that a murder did take place the plot picks up and the rest of the book reads more like a typical Agatha Christie.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't miss this one!,
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This review is from: 4 50 From Paddington (Paperback)
Elspeth McGillicuddy had spent a busy day Christmas shopping in London so when she settled into her comfortable 1st class train compartment on her way to visit her friend it was natural that she dozed off for a few minutes. It was most unsettling that she woke up just in time to see a murder being committed in a passing train. It was understandable that the train conducter did not believe this elderly lady's fantastic story. It was fortunate that Mrs. McGillicuddy's friend was none other than Jane Marple.Miss Marple believed her friend was not imagining whole thing. When the police found no evidence of the crime Miss Marple began to investigate for herself. She located the most likely place a body could be disposed of, a large estate owned by the Crackenthorpe family and arranged for a confederate, Lucy Eyelesbarrow to work for the family. The Crackenthorpe family is another of Christie's large dysfunctional families dominated by a disagreeable father (Luther), downtrodden daughter (Emma), ambitious son (Harold) and a pair of blacksheep - the artistic Cedric and the slightly crooked Alfred. Two other siblings have died, Edmund and Emma. Emma's husband, Bryan and son, Alexander are also part of the household. The body is found, more murders commited, the culprit unmasked and the true motive revealed in dramitic fashion by Miss Marple. The family is very much like characters from similiar families in other books, (HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS, A POCKET FULL OF RYE, CROOKED HOUSE and others). This, coupled with the various titles this story has had over the years - WHAT MRS. McGILLICUDDY SAW, EYEWITNESS TO MURDER and MURDER SHE SAID, could lead a reader to think they had read this one before. Do not pass this one by, it is worth reading for the delightful Lucy Eyelesbarrow alone!
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