"deductive skills, determines the facts of the crime. At the end, she finds that the two people who confessed were, indeed, the real murderers and simply wanted to evade suspicion. Mrs Anne Protheroe, wife of the deceased, and Lawrence Redding, her lover, committed the crime. The vicar and his wife, Leonard and Griselda Clement, who made their first appearance in this novel, continue to show up in Miss Marple stories: notably, in ""The Body in the Library"" (1942) and 4.50 from Paddington"" (1957). The ""Times Literary Supplement"" of 6 November 1930 posed the various questions as to who could have"
"Christie's novels, the first three were based on ""Death on the Nile"", ""Peril at End House"", and ""Dead Man's Folly"". 4.50 from Paddington 4.50 from Paddington is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in November 1957 by Collins Crime Club. This work was published in the United States at the same time as What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw!, by Dodd, Mead. The novel was published in serial form before the book was released in each nation, and under different titles. The US edition retailed at $2.95. Reviewers at the time generally liked the novel, but would have liked"
"or 1956 as it is said to be seven or eight years after the murder of the story which happened in 1948, according to the dates on the victim's gravestone. ""A Caribbean Mystery"" is set prior to this. ""At Bertram's Hotel"" is set in 1955 after the launch of ITV and ""4.50 from Paddington"" is set in 1957, during the launch of Sputnik. The first episode was enthusiastically received by critics. ""The Times"" said ""once hooked, you won't be able to turn off"", and ""The Sun"" said it was a series ""with pulling power and real class"". For episode two,"
"Halfidason, a critic for the BBC film website, awarded the picture four stars out of a possible five, calling it ""delightfully dotty"" and ""fun"". The film made a profit of $342,000. Murder, She Said Murder, She Said is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the novel ""4.50 from Paddington"" by Agatha Christie. The production starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow and James Robertson Justice, and features Stringer Davis, Rutherford's real life husband. MGM made three sequels, ""Murder at the Gallop"", ""Murder Most Foul"" and ""Murder Ahoy!"", all with Rutherford"
"4.50 from Paddington"" (""Murder, She Said"" – the only Miss Marple novel used), ""After the Funeral"" (a Poirot mystery, adapted for Miss Marple with the title ""Murder at the Gallop"") and ""Mrs. McGinty's Dead"" (another Poirot novel, adapted as ""Murder Most Foul"") – this film used an original screenplay that was not based on any of Christie's stories. It does, however, employ elements of the Miss Marple story ""They Do It With Mirrors"". Specifically, the ""Battledore"" is a training ship for teenage boys with criminal tendencies, who are supposedly being set on the straight and narrow path – when, in"
"Murder, She Said Murder, She Said is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the novel ""4.50 from Paddington"" by Agatha Christie. The production starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow and James Robertson Justice, and features Stringer Davis, Rutherford's real life husband. MGM made three sequels, ""Murder at the Gallop"", ""Murder Most Foul"" and ""Murder Ahoy!"", all with Rutherford starring as Christie's famed amateur sleuth. While traveling by rail, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in the carriage of an overtaking train. The local police can find"
"Price Ridley ""Alvys Maben"" as Anne Protheroe ""Reginald Tate"" as Lawrence Redding (an artist) ""Francis Roberts"" as Dr John Haydock ""Stanley Van Beers"" as Inspector Slack The play was first published by Samuel French in January 1951 (copyright dated 1950). The action of the play passes in the study of a vicarage in the country, at the present time. Murder at the Vicarage (play) Murder at the Vicarage is a 1949 play by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. Christie's official biography suggests that the play was written by"
"In addition to Miss Marple, there are two semi-regular characters in the series. The first is Inspector (later Superintendent) Slack, played by David Horovitch; the second is Constable (later Sergeant) Lake, played by Ian Brimble. Slack and Lake appear in five episodes: ""The Body in the Library"", ""The Murder at the Vicarage"", ""4.50 From Paddington"", ""They Do It with Mirrors"" and ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"". They are the official detectives and both (particularly Slack) originally dislike and are exasperated by Miss Marple, her interference and her methods, but they eventually come to respect (and indeed, in the"
"Inspector Craddock presents another inconsistency in the series. The character is clearly unknown to Miss Marple in ""A Murder is Announced"" but in his second appearance in ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"", Craddock is Miss Marple's nephew. All of the episodes take place in the 1950's. ""The Murder at the Vicarage"" is set in 1954, according to a sign about money being raised for the church fund. This takes place after the events of ""The Body in the Library"", which Miss Marple relates briefly when describing how she first came across Inspector Slack. ""Nemesis"" is set in 1955"
"that is missing in ""4.50 from Paddington"". The police never seem to find out a single thing, and even Miss Marples (sic) lies low and says nuffin' to the point until the final dramatic exposure. There is the usual small gallery of interesting and perfectly credible characters and nothing could be easier to read. But please, Mrs Christie, a little more of that incomparable detection next time."" Robert Barnard said of this novel that it was ""Another locomotive one – murder seen as two trains pass each other in the same direction. Later settles down into a good old family"
"and Jonathan gets it back. As Morgan tries unconvincingly to tell Jonathan that the police will be coming, they do. In the final scene, Nicki and Wayne Morgan are newlyweds on a train. She is enjoying his newest book so much she tells the porter not to make up their beds until she finishes reading, and Morgan promptly tells her how it ends. In 1957, Agatha Christie's ""4.50 from Paddington"" was published, using a story markedly similar to that of ""Lady on a Train"". In 1990, Charteris's story was adapted for the pilot episode of the television series ""Over My"
"fiction. It is mentioned in several Sherlock Holmes novels. In ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", Watson and his companions Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry Baskerville leave for Dartmoor from Paddington, while in ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", Holmes and Watson leave the station for a train to Boscombe Valley near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. The mystery novel ""4.50 From Paddington"" (1957) by Agatha Christie begins with a murder witnessed by a passenger on a train from Paddington. One of The Railway Series books, ""The Eight Famous Engines"", contains a story about Gordon, Duck and a foreign engine debating which station London is. Duck"
"Douglas Watkinson Douglas Arthur Watkinson (born 5 July 1945) is an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter, specializing in crime and mystery. His books feature the hard-bitten, soft-centred Nathan Hawk, a police officer who was 'required to retire' and now works as a private detective. Known for his wit and fiery temper, Hawk is on his fifth case. The first four books are entitled ""Haggard Hawk"", ""Easy Prey"", ""Scattered Remains"" and ""Evil Turn"". Watkinson has written hundreds of scripts for television, contributing to Lovejoy, Boon, Juliet Bravo, Agatha Christie's Poirot and Midsomer Murders. He also wrote the first daytime drama to"
"book ""The Paddington Mystery"", is engaged to Dr. Priestly's daughter April. Superintendent Hanslet (now retired) appears in several later works as a dinner guest of Dr. Priestly passing on his professional wisdom to Waghorn. Dr. Priestley Dr. Lancelot Priestley is a fictional investigator born in July 1869 in a series of books by John Rhode After 1924 Dr. Priestley took over from Dr. Thorndyke as the leading fictional forensic investigator in Britain, and featured in 72 novels written over 40 years, solving many ingenious and misleading murders. Dr Priestley's involvement is usually at the request of the police but only"
"and Catherine Frot as Prudence Beresford. The action is transposed to Savoie in France. A second movie, ""Le crime est notre affaire"", came out in 2008. ""Le crime est notre affaire"" is named after ""Partners in Crime"" and stars the Beresfords, but its story is based on ""4.50 From Paddington"", which was originally a novel starring Miss Marple. A third film ""Associés contre le crime"" is very, very loosely based (to the point of being unrecognisable) on one of the stories in ""Partners in Crime"". An adaptation of ""By the Pricking of My Thumbs"" appeared in 2006 as an episode"
"the chapbook ""Dead Men Tell No Tales"". The additional stories are: The re-released Subterranean Press version also came in a 26 copy lettered edition which featured additional material: Available as a trade edition and a 250 copy signed limited edition (with a bonus chapbook short story) As editor: Norman Partridge Norman Partridge (born May 28, 1958) is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, ""Saguaro Riptide"" and ""The Ten Ounce Siesta"". He is also the author of a Crow novel, """", which was adapted in 2005 into the"
"script writer for several BBC series, most notably ""Z-Cars"", ""Howard's Way"" and ""The Brothers"". His favourite work has been ""Midsomer Murders"", ""Boon"" (for which he wrote the establishing episode), ""Lovejoy"", ""Forever Green"" and ""Maybury"" (which was Kenneth Branagh's first on-screen appearance). Douglas Watkinson Douglas Arthur Watkinson (born 5 July 1945) is an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter, specializing in crime and mystery. His books feature the hard-bitten, soft-centred Nathan Hawk, a police officer who was 'required to retire' and now works as a private detective. Known for his wit and fiery temper, Hawk is on his fifth case. The first"
"by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. The series opening titles featured paintings of seemingly pleasant village life, darkened by suspicious looking characters and the shot of a murder victim behind a cricket sight screen. Gossipy women were made to look like they were hiding secrets, whilst the vicar appeared to be hiding in the shadows. For the first four episodes, these paintings were black and white. From ""The Murder at the Vicarage"" onwards, new, colour drawings replaced these, though they still depicted suspicious looking villagers in the surroundings. Adaptations of the books ""A Caribbean Mystery"" (1964) and ""Nemesis"" (1971) were"
"of San Francisco's police chief, Colin Hill, a character apparently modeled on SFPD's real-life chief at that time, Thomas J. Cahill, to whom the book is dedicated. More recently, Collin Wilcox wrote a long series featuring Lieutenant Frank Hastings of SFPD's Homicide Detail. Laurie R. King won an Edgar for her first novel, ""A Grave Talent"" (1993), which introduced Homicide Inspector Kate Martinelli, who has gone on to headline such books as ""With Child"" (1997), an Edgar nominee, and ""The Art of Detection"" (2006), winner of the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Mystery Novel. James Patterson's novels about Homicide Inspector"
"is Christie's daughter, Rosalind Hicks (1919–2004) who was the daughter of her first marriage to Archibald Christie (1890–1962) and Agatha Christie's only child. Rosalind was eleven years of age at the time of the publication of this book. The Murder at the Vicarage The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition"
"of London); 1961 – Insurance Agent Jack Tarling in ""Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen"" (lit. The Mystery of the Yellow Daffodils); 1961 – Inspector Mike Dorn in ""Die seltsame Gräfin"" (The Strange Countess); 1962 – Inspector Wade in ""Das Gasthaus an der Themse"" (lit. The Inn on the River Thames); 1963 – Clifford Lynne in """" (lit. The Curse of the Yellow Snake); 1963 – Estate manager Dick Alford in ""Der schwarze Abt"" (The Black Abbot); 1964 – Investigator Johnny Gray in """" (Room 13); 1964 – Inspector Higgins in ""Der Hexer"" (The Warlock); 1967 – Inspector Higgins in """""
"""The Torturer"", 1995 As by Holly Delatour (erotica): ""The Downfall of Danielle"", 1993 ""What Katy Dunn Did"", 1994 As by Lee Martin: ""Gangster's Wives"", 2007 ""The Lipstick Killers"", 2009 As by Martin Milk (anagram of 'Mark Timlin'): ""That Saturday"", 1996 As by Tony Williams: ""Valin's Raiders"", 1994 ""Blue on Blue"", 1999 Mark Timlin Mark Timlin (born 15 June 1944, in Cheltenham) is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. The Sharman books are characterised by their noir tone"
"The A.B.C. Murders The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as ""A.B.C."". The book was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 January 1936, retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while a US edition, published by Dodd, Mead and Company on 14 February of the same year, was retailed at $2.00. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first-person narrative and"
"been adapted for television under the series title ""DCI Banks"" with Stephen Tompkinson in the title role. Although ""Caedmon's Song"" is a standalone novella, it is related to ""Friend of the Devil"". Peter Robinson (novelist) Peter Robinson (born March 17, 1950) is an English-Canadian crime writer. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He has also published a number of other novels and short stories as well as some poems and two articles on writing. Robinson was awarded a BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds. He then"
"Norman Partridge Norman Partridge (born May 28, 1958) is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, ""Saguaro Riptide"" and ""The Ten Ounce Siesta"". He is also the author of a Crow novel, """", which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow movie, bearing the same name. Mr. Partridge's 2006 novel ""Dark Harvest"", published in a limited edition of 2000 autographed copies and 24 lettered edition copies by Cemetery Dance Publications, was voted one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2006. It also won the 2006 Bram"
"(usually Hercule Poirot). This occurs in ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"", ""Death on the Nile"", ""Dumb Witness"", ""Crooked House"", ""The Hollow"", ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"", ""Cat Among the Pigeons"", ""Peril at End House"", ""Nemesis"", ""Appointment with Death"", ""The Secret Adversary"", and ""Curtain"". In the last of these (""Curtain""), no fewer than three culprits die during the course of the story. In ""The A.B.C. Murders"", the murderer has killed four innocent people and attempted to frame an unstable man for the crimes. Hercule Poirot, however, prevents this easy way out, ensuring a trial and hanging. In ""And Then"
"The 12.30 from Croydon The 12.30 from Croydon (U.S. title: Wilful and Premeditated) is a detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts first published in 1934. It is about a murder which is committed during a flight over the English Channel. The identity of the killer is revealed quite early in the book (making it an early example of the inverted detective story or ""howcatchem""), and the reader can watch the preparations for the crime and how the murderer tries to cover up his tracks. The final chapters of the novel are set in a courtroom and during a private function"
"on the thoughts and deeds of the criminal. The 12.30 from Croydon The 12.30 from Croydon (U.S. title: Wilful and Premeditated) is a detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts first published in 1934. It is about a murder which is committed during a flight over the English Channel. The identity of the killer is revealed quite early in the book (making it an early example of the inverted detective story or ""howcatchem""), and the reader can watch the preparations for the crime and how the murderer tries to cover up his tracks. The final chapters of the novel are set"
"Said"" (1961, directed by George Pollock) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford. This first film was based on the 1957 novel ""4:50 from Paddington"" (U.S. title, ""What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!""), and the changes made in the plot were typical of the series. In the film, Mrs. McGillicuddy is cut from the plot. Miss Marple herself sees an apparent murder committed on a train running alongside hers. Likewise, it is Miss Marple herself who poses as a maid to find out the facts of the case, not a young friend of hers who has made a business"
"case of Lake, like) her. There are other recurring characters in ""Miss Marple"". John Castle appears as Inspector Dermot Eric Craddock in ""A Murder Is Announced"" and ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"". Craddock was unknown to Miss Marple in the former story, but had become her nephew by the latter. Gwen Watford appears as Mrs Dolly Bantry in ""The Body in the Library"" and ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"". Barbara Hicks appears as Miss Amanda Hartnell in ""The Murder at the Vicarage"" and ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"". Christopher Good appears as Christopher Hawes"
"An Expert in Murder An Expert in Murder is a historical crime novel by Nicola Upson, published on March 6, 2008. The novel is set in the London theatres of the 1930s. The book revolves around Josephine Tey, a version of the famous novelist. The story begins with Tey taking the train from Scotland to London in order to attend the final week of performances of her renowned play, ""Richard of Bordeaux"", written under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. On board, she meets a young woman, Elspeth Simmons, the adopted daughter of hatmakers from Berwick-upon-Tweed. The two strike up a friendship"
"powers of detection to bear on the case, and to solve not only the mystery of the murdered woman but also the alarming disappearance of some well-known art treasures. Campion discovers the clue to the mystery by tracing two bottles of a very rare wine. Coroner's Pidgin Coroner's Pidgin is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1945, in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York as Pearls Before Swine. It is the twelfth novel in the Albert Campion series. Just returned from years overseas on a secret"
"does not participate in the investigation since his presence as the narrator was unnecessary in a filmed version. ""The Murder at the Vicarage"" was released by HarperCollins as a graphic novel adaptation on 20 May 2008, adapted and illustrated by ""Norma"" (Norbert Morandière) (). This was translated from the edition first published in France by in 2005 under the title of ""L'Affaire Protheroe"". The novel was first serialised in the US in the ""Chicago Tribune"" in fifty-five instalments from Monday, 18 August to Monday, 20 October 1930. The dedication of the book reads: ""To Rosalind"" The subject of this dedication"