Teaser Tuesday – 4.50 from Paddington

Published on by Margaret

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Share a couple or more sentences from the book you’re currently reading. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your ‘teaser’ from €¦ that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!


This week one of the books I’m reading is 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie, in which a woman is killed on a train and then her body can’t be found. Miss Marple gets involved. As she is by now a frail old lady told by her doctor to take things easy she enlists the help of Lucy Eyelesbarrow in finding out what actually happened. This works out very well, mainly because of Lucy’s thoroughness and Miss Marple’s powers of deduction.  This is how she thinks about it:

Of course, I am somewhat handicapped by not actually being on the spot. It is so helpful, I always feel, when people remind you of other people – because types are alike everywhere and that is such a valuable guide.

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One is inclined to guess – and guessing would be very wrong when it is a question of anything as serious as murder. All one can do is to observe the people concerned – or who might have been concerned – and see of whom  they remind you. (page 121)

14 thoughts on “Teaser Tuesday – 4.50 from Paddington”

  1. Margaret – I’m so glad you’re enjoying 4.50 From Paddington It’s really such a fine book, and I do like the characters of Miss Marple and Elspeth McGillicuddy – Lucy Eylesbarrow, too. I very much enjoyed your choice of quote, too – it does capture Miss Marple’s view of detection.

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  5. I have read this one. It is a goodie. I also recently read A Caribbean Mystery; another Miss Marple mystery and also very good. Thanks for sharing these delightful teasers. They really do sum up her style of murder solving don’t they?

    Love the photos of your cat Lucy. I have a female ginger tabby too: Meeka 🙂

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  10. Ooh, I love Miss Marple. Can’t go wrong with the Grande Dame of mystery, that’s for sure. I hope you’re enjoying the book. Here’s my teaser if you would like to visit. Have a great week and happy reading!

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  14. I love Agatha Christie! She wrote just the kind of detective fiction I like: not bloody or gory; not ‘psychological thrillers’. Just good, clever puzzles! And reading about Miss Marple always makes me get out my knitting!

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