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4.50 from Paddington (1987)
IMDB rating: 7.00
Plot: Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Miss Marple’s, witnesses a strangulation murder in a passing train through the window of her coach compartment. When Police Inspector Slack can’t find a body along the tracks and doubts the validity of the story, Miss Marple and Elspeth locate the area where the body was probably thrown from the train, the isolated manor house of an aged, cantankerous millionaire, Luther Crackenthorpe. Miss Marple’s niece Lucy is recruited to apply for a job on the estate in hopes of locating the corpse. When she finds it in an ancient sarcophagus in an outbuilding housing Egyptian and Etruscan art treasures, the police and Miss Marple are brought in. Obviously someone in the large household is involved, but who?
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Directors: Friend Martyn
Actors: Beames David,Blane Nicholas,Adams Leslie,Horovitch David,Brimble Ian,Denham Maurice,Burt Andrew,Crime,Drama,Mystery,
Anybody here like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple?
I am a fan of the Miss Marple audiobooks but I only have one (4:50 from Paddington) after losing another (A Pocket full of Rye). Can anyone think of some others I would like and where to find them cheap? (HINT: You can ask tons of questions only on ONE! I only spent 5 points instead of 15!)
Greetings! Years ago, I used to love reading Agatha Christie. I read at least thirty or so of her books. I liked Miss Marple, but I enjoyed Poirot better. The only one that really jumps out at me is "Nemesis", which was Miss Marple’s last story and was posthumously published.
Agatha Christie, at one time, was the most prolific authoress in the world. I don’t know if anyone has taken her place, but she has over 80 books written, so there are tons of Christie books around.
My suggestion is to go to your used paperback bookstore and see what they have. My hunch is that they would have several shelves just by Agatha Christie, and you could get one for well under a buck.
Take care.
TeacherGrant | Jul 18, 2007
I like Hercule Poirot much better. But I love Nemesis, try it.
zachmir | Jul 18, 2007
I know that A Pocketful of Rye and Miss Marple’s Final Cases
are audiobooks.
I don’t know if my two Miss Marple’s favorites, The Mirror Crack’d and The Moving Finger, are in audiobook form.
The Mirror was made into a movie, if you’re interested. With a middle-aged Elizabeth Taylor in it.
Letizia | Jul 18, 2007
Miss Marple is a darling, and all of her stories are great. One in particular is chillingly superb — Sleeping Murder. It’s not standard Christie, but it’s so good.
The Mirror Crack’d, A Murder is Announced, The Body in the Library, and Murder at the Vicarage are all excellent, classic Marples as well.
Check out Poirot, and the Tommy and Tuppence series (N or M is excellent) while you’re at it!
A Christie short novel without any of her standards is Ten Little Indians (And Then There Were None, british title) and one of my absolute favorites of hers. She has superb characterization, and seeing the settings evolve as she wrote through the decades is very cool.
Lillian | Jul 18, 2007
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