{"id":24681,"date":"2025-06-25T18:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24681"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:06:24","slug":"450-from-paddington-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24681","title":{"rendered":"4:50 from Paddington"},"content":{"rendered":"

4:50 from Paddington<\/em> (1957) Agatha Christie<\/a> (Miss Marple, #8)<\/p>\n

\"4.50<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re getting deaf, Jane.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a little, perhaps. People do not seem to me to enunciate their words as clearly as they used to do. But it wasn\u2019t that I did not hear you. I\u2019m afraid I wasn\u2019t paying attention.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The two boys arrived on the following morning. They both had well-brushed hair, suspiciously angelic faces, and perfect manners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Well, as this seems a completely cockeyed business, all thought up by a couple of old ladies who\u2019ve turned out, against all probability, to be right, and since you already know one of these old ladies, I\u2019m sending you down on the case.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Miss Marple, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, Elspeth McGillicuddy, Luther Crackenthorpe, Cedric Crackenthorpe, Harold Crackenthorpe, Alfred Crackenthorpe, Emma Crackenthorpe, Edmund Crackenthorpe, Bryan Eastley, Alexander Eastley, James Stoddart-West, Lady Stoddart-West, Dr. Quimper, Dermot Craddock, Inspector Bacon, Frank Cornish, Martine Dubois, Mrs. Kidder, Mrs. Hart, Dr. Morris, Mr. Wimborne, Anna Stravinska, Madame Joilet, Armand Dessin, David West<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow<\/p>\n

Rating: 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4:50 from Paddington (1957) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple, #8) \u201cYou\u2019re getting deaf, Jane.\u201d \u201cJust a little, perhaps. People do not seem to me to enunciate their words as clearly as they used to do. But it wasn\u2019t that I did not hear you. I\u2019m afraid I wasn\u2019t paying attention.\u201d The two boys arrived on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,30,668,190,292,33,8,41],"tags":[228,229,693],"class_list":["post-24681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-10","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-reread","tag-agatha-christie","tag-miss-marple","tag-older-protagonist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6q5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3482,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3482","url_meta":{"origin":24681,"position":0},"title":"4:50 from Paddington","author":"Michelle","date":"January 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"4:50 from Paddington (1957) Agatha Christie Mrs. Elspeth McGillicuddy is taking the train from London to visit her friend Miss Marple, when she looks into the windows of a passing train and sees a woman being throttled--she alerts the conductor, the station master, and the local police, but--strangely--no body is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "9\/10"","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"4:50 from Paddington","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/450-from-paddington.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12949,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12949","url_meta":{"origin":24681,"position":1},"title":"4.50 from Paddington","author":"Michelle","date":"June 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"4.50 from Paddington (1957) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple) This may well be my favorite Miss Marple story. 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