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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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Agatha Christie's audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. 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.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Trains, trays, tablets and tittle-tattle.,
By John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: 4.50 from Paddington (Agatha Christie) (Paperback)
Old and new readers of Agatha Christie's whodunnits will not be disappointed with the 1957 puzzler. It has an unforgettable opening sequence, an ingenious denouement, and an interesting sleuth, especially created for the occasion, named Lucy Eylesbarrow. Although it is the elderly Jane Marple who exerts her powers of detection, she does it by remote control while her much younger friend does the spadework - or the domestic work. As Agatha Christie explains, "The point about Lucy Eylesbarrow was that all worry, anxiety, and hard work went out of a house when she came into it." Accordingly, the tertiary-trained domestic, Lucy, is soon installed in Rutherford Hall, where Jane Marple believes a body thrown from a train might be hidden. Surprises, further murders, gossip, marriage proposals, and poisonings follow in rapid succession, so that before you know it, the hours have sped by, the murderer is revealed, and you admit that once again you were quite unable to guess whodunnit. Agatha Christie adds to the usual cozy elements of her murder mysteries a heavy involvement with passenger trains, timetables and railway matters so beloved of the British. Otherwise you'll find the book fits into the pattern of the dysfunctional family's struggles being worked out with a particularly stubborn, callous and crusty old man as the family's head. Feature film and TV adaptations of this novel have been made, the most faithful to the text featuring Joan Hickson who also can be heard in an unabridged reading on audiotapes.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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EXCELLENT!,
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This review is from: 4:50 from Paddington (Mass Market Paperback)
I have read all of Christie's books and I must say I enjoyed this one the most. It was solved through actual detective work and not just some detective who percieved the solution through out. Miss Marple is my favorite of Christie's detectives and Lucy Eyelesbarrow is a very admirable young lady.
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Traditional detective writing at its finest,
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This review is from: 4.50 from Paddington (Agatha Christie) (Paperback)
There may not be a lot of corpses around (though there are some), but this has all the ingredients of traditional detective writing. First, you must have characters - a clever plot is not enough (though this is a clever plot). Maybe you just need three great characters in this genre - detective, sidekick and dastardly opponent, Holmes, Watson and Moriarty - but they matter, as in this story the characters of Miss Marple, Lucy and... (well, you can't name who did it, can you) matter. And the other thing you need is setting, a feel for landscape, for trains rattling along lines and bodies falling down embankments and ancient piles smelling of history. This is a great read, in a traditional genre you don't find much today, though Stanford and Crabtree sparring their way to a solution in Sam Napier's very westcountry murder case, Inspector Stanford's Conversion, comes closeInspector Stanford's Conversion.
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