4.50 from Paddington (Agatha Christie Signature Edition)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0007145314 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 568 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Then the other train drew away.But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses and no corpse.. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Classic Marple.For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. The body crumpled
'Never a dull moment.' The Times
A missing body baffles the police, but not Miss Marple Poor Dame Agatha! When she started writing her mysteries in the 1920's she had no idea that she would still be cranking them out fifty years later. If she had, she wouldn't have made her two detectives (Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple) so old to start with. On the other hand, she got to explore the advantages and disadvantages of old age in a way not often found in mystery novels.Although I like Hercule, I must admit that I prefer Christie books and stories that feature that gentle-but-shrewd old lady Miss Jane . 4 50 from Paddington is a tense and suspensful Miss Marple murder myster by Dame Agatha Christie the Queen of Murder! C. M Mills Instead of taking the night train to Memphis the elderly Mrs McGillicuddy took the 450 from Paddington. Suddenly a train running parallel to her train reveals a murder in progress! A dark headed man is strangling to death a woman. Mrs M. returns home to report the foul deed to the local constables. She then tells the tale to Miss Marple the greatest old lady in all of English murder fiction. The story revolves around the dark secrets of a large old English family the Crackenthorpes who live at Rutherfurd Hall. . 50 from Paddington is a tense and suspensful Miss Marple murder myster by Dame Agatha Christie the Queen of Murder! Instead of taking the night train to Memphis the elderly Mrs McGillicuddy took the 4 50 from Paddington is a tense and suspensful Miss Marple murder myster by Dame Agatha Christie the Queen of Murder! C. M Mills Instead of taking the night train to Memphis the elderly Mrs McGillicuddy took the 450 from Paddington. Suddenly a train running parallel to her train reveals a murder in progress! A dark headed man is strangling to death a woman. Mrs M. returns home to report the foul deed to the local constables. She then tells the tale to Miss Marple the greatest old lady in all of English murder fiction. The story revolves around the dark secrets of a large old English family the Crackenthorpes who live at Rutherfurd Hall. . 50 from Paddington. Suddenly a train running parallel to her train reveals a murder in progress! A dark headed man is strangling to death a woman. Mrs M. returns home to report the foul deed to the local constables. She then tells the tale to Miss Marple the greatest old lady in all of English murder fiction. The story revolves around the dark secrets of a large old English family the Crackenthorpes who live at Rutherfurd Hall. . An Engaging Mystery Chock Full of Characters Jill Clardy I've never read much Agatha Christie, and don't really know why. Now that I have a Kindle, I plan to stock up on this author whenever I see a good price ! According to the blurb at the end of the book, Christie is the "most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare." That fact alone is proof that she has a universal appeal.I won't recap much of the plot here, as the product description is sufficient for that purpose (and I certainly would not want to leak
She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. . She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime