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4.50 from Paddington |  | Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 1836743
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Large Print Ed
Pages: 391
ISBN: 0854564748
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780854564743
ASIN: 0854564748
Publication Date: April 1976
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Condition: Ex library. Usual stamps. Dust jacket missing. Some marking of cover. Spine cover partially missing. Board corners and spine ends bumped. Some discolouration of page edges
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vintage christie January 2, 2008
THIS IS A MISS MARPLE NOVEL ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE DETECTING RELIES ON A RESOURCEFUL YOUNG LADY NAMED LUCY EYELESBARROW. THE STORY REVOLVES AROUND A MURDER WITNESSED BY MISS MARPLES FRIEND ELSPETH MC GILLICUDDY. THE SEARCH FOR THE VICTIM LEADS TO A RATHER MOSTLY UNPLEASANT FAMILY. MORE MURDERS FOLLOW UNTIL MISS MARPLE CAN UNMASK THE CULPRIT, DUE IN NO SMALL PART TO LUCYS HELP. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 At the moment when the two trains gave the illusion of being stationary, a blind in one of the carriages flew up with a snap .. November 16, 2007
It remainds you of "The lady vanishes", "Strangers on a train" ? Passenger Elspeth McGillicuddy sees on a running parallel train a tall, dark man strangling a woman, but next day the murder is not reported in newspapers. Her friend Jane Marple - through a "most fantastic process of guesswork" that is one of the most enjoyable passages of the book - locates the murder area in a country property encircled by the railway, Rutherford Hall, and dispatches there as domestic help the thirty-two Lucy Eyelesbarrow, "a most efficient and intelligent person", to find the body. With the contribution of two Harry-Potteresque boys, Alexander Crackenthorpe Eastley and James Stoddart-West, Lucy actually finds the body of the murdered woman in a barn. The inquest brings the Crackenthorpe family to the attention of Dermott Craddock of Scotland Yard - and shifts the focus of the story to the ambiguity growing from interaction between Lucy and the tall, dark gentlemen of Rutherford Hall. While Dermott Craddock looks for the identity of the murdered woman, Miss Marple plays match-making between the people involved in the case and her St. Mary Mead countrymen, but warns Lucy that "Murder isn't a game." When arsenic poisoning begins to hit Crackenthorpe family members, Miss Marple with the help of Elspeth McGillicuddy puts finally an end to murders and mystery. The strongest point of force in this book is the fact that Lucy Eyelesbarrow is so captivating a character. There is so much of young Agatha in Lucy Eyelesbarrow - volunteering as a nurse and learning about poisons, enjoying life and people, respecting but dismissing her calm, amiable boy-friends for Archie Christie, a man that made her feel so nervous but so thrilled. Five stars for dialogues style, tailored on characters personality, with a delightful, Jane-Austenesque turn of phrase reserved for Miss Marple. An ideal companion for this book is the Autobiography of Agatha Christie, one of the finest and interesting in its genre - in which she reveals all about herself, Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Enjoyable October 24, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the first Agatha Christie book I ever read and ( to be honest ) it wasn't the book that got me really into her writing, the one that did get me into her writing was Murder On The Orient Express. However, when I look back, it was actually ( if not her best book ) very enjoyable.
Elspeth Magillycuddy was on a train when the train passed another one and she witnessed the murder of a woman strangled by an unknown man. She arrives at the station and decides to tell the police, but would they believe her? She decides to tell somebody better than the police, Ms Marple. Ms Marples being an elderly woman is not in a fit state to go searching for an unknown body, so she gets Lucy Eyellessbarrow to search for the body for her. Lucy Eyellesbarrow soon finds the Crackenthorpe family and discovers that the motive is probably greed in the search of the Crackenthorpe fortune, but is it really because all the prime suspects are being killed off?
This is a good novel, but personally I prefer it when Ms Marple is in her novels a bit more. It might have been slightly better if they hadn't of spent so long searching for the body and trying to find out who she is ( like the other reviewer said ). However, I was satisfied with the conclusion and I didn't guess it, which is unusual for me, maybe it was because I had never read any of her books before, or maybe it's because this book is clever, I don't know.
I reccomend this book, but not as a first read, but if you have read a few, you can appreciate how good it really is.
 Sorry Aggie, not your best May 29, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I truly love anything Agatha Christie. Her style and ingenuity are second to none, but not all reach the sublime standards of 'The ABC Murders' or 'And Then There Were None'. Like most Christie fans I cut my teeth on Poirot and then ventured into Marple territory.
Perhaps most importantly I managed to concoct my own theory of who the murderer was, and be completely wrong on that account. The plot runs thus; an old dear witnesses a murder on a train (the 4.33 from Padington), but nobody takes her seriously, except Miss Marple. She sends in an acquaintance, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, to Rutherford house to discover the body, which she manages.
Then we encounter what I feel makes this book rather poor for Agatha's standards. About 200 pages are devoted to finding out who the body is, with all sorts of theories thrown in. I mean, it would be blatantly obvious to any Christie reader that this was all misdirection. But even when the whole plot is revealed, there is no satsifaction, no 'aaaahh' moment when all the clues fit into place.
It has not been crafted with the same love of detail and misleading facts as we are used to, and comes across as very mediocre. Marple does not compare to Poirot anyway, but in this novel she is absent for vast tracts of the book, and this is to its detriment. It just felt formulaic, and unremarkable. If you want to appreciate how well she can write, read those I mentioned earlier, or plum for 'The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd'.
Trains, trays, tablets and tittle-tattle. September 19, 2005
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
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.
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