Miss Marple · Book 8
4.50 from Paddington
- Published
- 1 January 1957
- Pages
- 253
- ISBN-13
- 9780007120826
- Type
- novel
About this book
4.50 from Paddington (1957, 253 pages), the seventh novel, continues the series a quarter-century after The Murder at the Vicarage first introduced Marple, still working cases by comparing them to a lifetime of St Mary Mead gossip. It followed A Pocket Full of Rye.
Its place in Miss Marple
4.50 from Paddington is book 8 in the Miss Marple series. It follows A Pocket Full of Rye. It is followed by The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. See the full Miss Marple reading order.
Jane Marple is an elderly, unmarried amateur detective living in the small English village of St Mary Mead, and Agatha Christie's quiet rebuttal to the idea that a detective needs to be dashing, professional, or even taken seriously. Marple solves murders by pattern-matching them against a lifetime of village gossip and human folly — she has, she insists, seen every possible motive for murder already play out over a church fete or a dispute about the vicar's roses. Christie wrote twelve Marple novels between 1930…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007120826