10. 4.50
4.50 From Paddington - Agatha Christie
Pages: 224 (3523)
Blurb: Having done her Christmas shopping, Mrs McGillicuddy relaxes happily in a train. Then another train, going in the same direction, draws abreast and for some minutes the two trains proceed side by side. That has happened to all of us. But in a first class carriage of the second train, Mrs McGillicuddy sees, to her horror, a man strangling a woman...Then the second train gathers speed and vanishes into the night.
Who was the woman? Who was the man who strangled her? And why is the body not found for so long?
As Mrs McGillicuddy is going to stay with her old friend Miss Marple, you may be sure that these questions all get answered - in the end.
Once again Agatha Christie demonstrates the ingenuity and mastery which have made her the most famous of crime writers. Once again she presents a story that will grip every reader from its exciting and unusual opening to the convincing solution at the end.
Thoughts: This was a nice, pleasant read. The book had a good pace to it, and really left it until the last few chapters to have the big reveal. If you want some 'mindless' crime fiction, I would say this would tick that box.
Pages: 224 (3523)
Blurb: Having done her Christmas shopping, Mrs McGillicuddy relaxes happily in a train. Then another train, going in the same direction, draws abreast and for some minutes the two trains proceed side by side. That has happened to all of us. But in a first class carriage of the second train, Mrs McGillicuddy sees, to her horror, a man strangling a woman...Then the second train gathers speed and vanishes into the night.
Who was the woman? Who was the man who strangled her? And why is the body not found for so long?
As Mrs McGillicuddy is going to stay with her old friend Miss Marple, you may be sure that these questions all get answered - in the end.
Once again Agatha Christie demonstrates the ingenuity and mastery which have made her the most famous of crime writers. Once again she presents a story that will grip every reader from its exciting and unusual opening to the convincing solution at the end.
Thoughts: This was a nice, pleasant read. The book had a good pace to it, and really left it until the last few chapters to have the big reveal. If you want some 'mindless' crime fiction, I would say this would tick that box.