4:50 From Paddington audiobook

4:50 From Paddington (Miss Marple, #8), Agatha ChristieMrs Elspeth McGillicuddy is on her way from a shopping expedition to visit her old friend Jane Marple for Christmas. Her train passes another train running parallel and in the same direction as her train. Then, a blind in one compartment flies up and she sees a man with his back to her strangling a woman. She reports it to a sceptical ticket collector who passes the report for investigation. When arriving at Miss Marple's cottage, she tells all to her. Mrs McGillicuddy describes the dying woman as having blonde hair and wearing a fur coat and the man as tall and dark, though she saw only his back. Miss Marple believes her story, knowing her friend to be trustworthy in description. With no report of a body found in the next day's news, Miss Marple sets out to determine where the body is. With a good map and several rides on the trains to feel the effect of a sharp curve on standing passengers, she determines that the body is on the grounds of Rutherford Hall. Miss Marple sends Lucy Eyelesbarrow, a young professional cook and housekeeper, to work at Rutherford Hall and find the body.Luther Crackenthorpe is a semi-invalid widower who lives in Rutherford Hall with his daughter Emma. Luther's father wrote a will that left his property for his eldest grandson, not liking his son. Luther receives the income for life. After Luther's death, the capital is to be divided equally among Luther's surviving children, not unlike a tontine pension. The share of cash rises to the living children as each sibling dies before their father dies.Edmund, the firstborn son, died during World War II. Youngest daughter Edith ("Edie"), died four years before the novel begins, leaving a son, Alexander. The remaining children are Cedric, an Ibiza-based bohemian painter; Harold, a married banker; Alfred, who engages in shady business dealings; and Emma. Others at the family home include Alexander's father Bryan Eastley, and Alexander's school friend James Stoddart-West, and local physician Dr Quimper, who looks after Luther but is in love with Emma.Lucy uses golf practice as a way to search the grounds. She discovers fur from a woman's fur coat caught on a bush. Then she finds a cheap compact. Lucy takes these to Miss Marple, who believes the murderer knew all about Rutherford Hall. He removed the body from the embankment where it had fallen away from the railway, drove a car outside the grounds at night and hid the body. Lucy finds the woman's body hidden in a sarcophagus in the old stables containing Luther's collection of dubious antiques. Who was she? ... Original publication year 1957Characters: Miss Jane Marple, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, Mrs McGillicuddy.عنوانها: «قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون»؛ «قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون و اعلام یک قتل»؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز دوازدهم ماه دسامبر سال 2006میلادیعنوان یک: قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون، مترجم: محمدعلی ایزدی، نشر تهران، کتاب هرمس، کتابهای کارآگاه، 1384، در 343ص.، شابک 9643633268؛ موضوع داستانهای کارآگاهی از نویسندگان انگلیسی - سده 20م‏عنوان دو: قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون و اعلام یک قتل، مترجم: محمدعلی ایزدی، نشر تهران، کتاب هرمس، کتابهای کارآگاه، 1388، در 720ص، شابک 9789643636203؛ ‏يادداشت ‏‫کتاب حاضر دو کتاب است در یک مجلد: «قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون» و «اعلام یک قتل»، هر دو با ترجمه: محمدعلی ایزدی، هریک از عنوانها جداگانه نیز چاپ شده اندخانم «مک‌ گیلکادی» که از دوستان صمیمی «دوشیزه مارپل» است، در حین سفر در قطار، در حالی که از پنجره قطار مشغول تماشای بیرون است، شاهد صحنه ی قتل زن جوانی، در قطار روبرو می‌شود؛ او ماجرا را برای «دوشیزه مارپل» بازگو میکند، و خانم «مارپل» پی‌گیر داستان می‌شود، و زنی به نام «لوسی آیلس‌ بارو» را می­یابد، و ...؛تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 28/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Case solved! Well done Miss Marple!September Read Christie 2022 challenge. It is from the Miss Marple series/#8I do love a train setting!Elspeth is minding her business when she looks out the train window and is horrified! As her train crosses paths with another, she witnesses a man with his hands around a women's neck. She couldn't see his face, but she must report this crime! "Fiddlesticks" she exclaims! "It was murder!"Miss Marple to the rescue! In search of a body, a family of suspects, and perhaps its the simplest kind of crime? Of course she will have to school the Inspector!Fun, fun, fun....

I still have no clue who Lucy Eyelesbarrow is supposed to marry... :)(Or why she should marry anyone, for that matter?)

Miss Marple is a delightful treasure, and in the 8th book of her series, 4:50 from Paddington, she's convinced her friend is telling the truth about witnessing a murder on a train. The cops and train conductor note the woman's account but mostly believe she simply woke up from a nap and misunderstood what was happening in a train passing by her train on an adjacent track. Our doddering old sleuth sets another friend on the case, and by about a third into the story, the body is found! Of course, it could only take Dame Agatha Christie to pull off a tale like this one. A rich old family with 2 daughters and 4 sons. The patriarch is sick and dying. One daughter is dead and one son was presumed lost in the war. A grandchild or two. The nurse has caught the eye of several male family members. The doctor fancies the daughter but won't ask her out. What's really going on? Hidden beneath the surface is a cleverly woven tale of secret drama, and as it all comes to the surface, so does the body count. I liked this one immensely, even if the plot is a little concerning. I'm not entirely sure how Miss Marple could really be certain that her friend was truthful... if a friend told me they saw a murder and the police wouldn't do much... I'd probably walk away after not finding any immediate clues. Then again, if I didn't work two jobs, and I had tons of free time, it might be cool to keep focused on itAll that said, another memorable trip into the past. I can't believe some of these stories have just hit their 100-year-anniversary! Highly recommended for all.

TFW you really want a character to die or be the murderer but they don’t and they aren’t 😭This was a solid mystery, I just thought the evidence tying the villain to the crime was slightly weak.

So let's say you are an elderly Scottish woman. While you are returning from a day of christmas shopping in the city you happen to glance out the train window and see something quite unsettling in a neighboring train: A MURDERNo one else is around and when you report this terrible, unsettling crime you are met with severe skepticism. What is one to do? You've just seen a woman killed, you have no idea what the murderer looks like, and you are afraid you one will believe the rambling of a silly old Scottish woman.Well, if you are Mrs. McGillicuddy (which I think we can all agree is an AMAZING name) you confide your fears to your good friend Miss Jane "I have caught so many more murderers than you" Marple. This dame knows how to get things done.Witness never saw the murderer? Not a problem.No body was ever found? Hardly an inconvenience.No idea which train it was that the murder took place on? She has people for thatToo old to actually go sleuthing about? She'll just use her inherent awesomeness to convince an equally awesome woman to go undercover and prove my brilliant theory was right. she'll just chill on the background and let the youngfolks run about while carefully processing all the clues and catch YET ANOTHER murderer because she is that awesome (certainly more awesome than any of us will ever be. I haven't even caught one murderer).But in all seriousness Christie constructed both a very neat murder mystery and some pretty fascinating characters to go along with it. She weaves a story of an overbearing patriarch, ungrateful and rather wretched children (well not all, most the majority of them), some mysterious letters, and a body whose origins are unknown. Like most of her mysteries I had no idea who the killer was and the solution to the murder was elegant and followed logically from all the information the reader has been exposed to.Interestingly there was actually very little Miss Marple in this story. She shows up in the beginning, but, recognizing how old and frail she has become, enlists the aid of one Lucy Eyelesbarrow to do the footwork of tracking down Miss Marple's hunches. The chapters tell the story from different characters' perspectives and provides a wide view of the mystery for the reader. The plot is brisk but well paced and Christie does a wonderful job giving all of the characters depth and purpose. All in all a smashing mystery that was engaging and rewarding.It should be noted I consumed this book in audio form. The narrator, Emilia Fox (who could not be more of a British thespian, seriously, look at her family tree), did a stupendous job with the voices. It was very clear from her tone, pacing, and accent what character was speaking at a given time and her voice in no way distracted from the story she was narrating. I would definitely listen to another Christie audio book if she was the one doing the narration.

Huzzah, I guessed the identity of the murderer correctly. I hit on his identity fairly early, when only one of the three murders had been committed. I didn't know anything else. Sadly to say, I couldn't guess the identity of the strangled lady. What propelled this book to 5 stars is the enormous interest I had for the first murder, which was evil in character but also very exciting to read about. Then there's the two basic murders of the brothers. They catch you unawares. They highlight the first murder and the final solution provided by Miss Marple seems to take too long.Miss Jane Marple has the knack of solving cases which baffle Scotland Yard officials. How she does this may be explained, but cannot be taught. That's why we want to read every story of hers. People as old as Marple, who live in the same place and never travel much, don't have anything new to say. The quirky ability to reason sets her apart from other people of her gender, age, and class.She gets help in this case via Lucy Eyelesbarrow - for me an unpronounceable name- who becomes her eyes and her brawn. Miss Marple doesn't have the body, or the opportunity to infiltrate the sprawling household where she expects a body is hidden. I thought all this arrangement was clumsy but necessary. Anyway I was soon engrossed in the intrigue. The author has the guts to prolong the suspense regarding the identity of the first body. The fact that she does this with ease while obscuring from the stage the presence of Miss Marple and instead concentrating on Lucy and Inspector Craddock, betrays her confidence in her writing.Now, I'm wondering that this fragile, flickering, growing habit of mine to guess Agatha Christie's puzzlers can be strengthened. One trick is to eliminate most of the people who are pointedly probed as suspects. That's how partly I arrived at the correct solution. But another trick is to take a fact provided by the author. A big fact, an important fact that may be true or be a case of misdirection. You then have to decide if this important fact is true or if it's a red herring. Chances are that it will be untrue. If it's untrue then go against the direction to which the author is slyly trying to shoo you. It worked for me for this book. It may work regularly.

"La verdad es que la gente forma una mezcla extraordinaria de heroísmo y cobardía".

Ambientado en Navidad y muy entretenido. De los mejores de la autora y la Señorita Marpple adorable.Muy recomendable.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ½Genre: Classics + MysteryWhen two trains run side by side, Mrs. Elspeth McGillicuddy witnesses a murder being committed on the other train. A man is strangling a woman. The only problem here is that she cannot see the face of the man as he is giving her his back. When she tells the story to her old friend Miss Jane Marple, the old lady believes her knowing she can’t be wrong or imagined it. When no report of a body is found or announced in the next day’s newspaper, Miss Marple decides to search for the body! She will do that with the help of Lucy Eyelesbarrow.This is the seventh book in the Miss Marple series. I enjoyed this story a lot. Though I still can’t tell how did Miss Marple know where to send Lucy to make her investigation. The characters are well developed and I liked them all, especially Lucy. She was indeed very efficient and smart. The family where she went to work for were all interesting and unique characters. In 4:50 from Paddington, one murder leads to another, and so on until the criminal is exposed by the clever Jane Marple. This is one of those cozy mystery stories that has many light moments besides the evil ones! I loved it a lot.