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4.50 from Paddington
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
A classic Marple mystery, read by Emilia Fox.
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses… and no corpse.
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"The acknowledged queen of detective fiction." (Observer)
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- MR.K.GILL
- 30-06-22
Good But!!
One of my Favourite Agatha’s but somebody should tell Emilia Fox she can't Narrate! simple has that.
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- sinbad4england
- 29-06-22
A classic story underdone.....
This is a well know, classic story but the narrator didn't seem to get Miss Marple right, I've doted on the screen versions of the Christie Marple, but this audiobook was flat. Its a good job I know the story or I would be struggling to know how Miss Marple 'got her man' ! (I'm still a bit mystified)
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- Mr. Marcus Bachler
- 13-10-23
Great story - but why a woman?
Why did someone decide that Miss Marple stories must be narrated by a woman?
That is sexism, isn't it?
(There is the odd exception of Richard E Grant voicing Miss Marple, but what about the brilliant Hugh Fraser?)
I like Emilia Fox OK, except her voicing of male characters is silly and unconvincing.
You do get used to it and she is easily understood and her female characters, including Miss Marple, are pleasing to the ear.
I did enjoy the story, although it ended abruptly (as many of her novels do) - but this one even more so.
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- rnblack
- 22-03-24
not enjoyable
harsh voice, variable production values in sound levels and poor accent. not emjoyable. a pity as a great story.
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- sillygoose
- 03-03-24
A Christie Classic and one of my favourites!
Have always enjoyed this Christie novel, remember seeing the dramatised version when I was young, such a great classic Miss Marple story as well as being a superb and murder mystery. Brought so well to life by the fantastic narration who really does it justice especially comparing it to just like watching the film!
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-02-24
A marvellous listen
As intriguing and complex as ever by Agatha Christie. Beautifully performed and read. Just what I wanted.
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- kat2378
- 27-12-23
Good listen
Excellent story of course. I've seen the TV adaptations many times but had never read the book so was pleased to come across this. Emilia did a good narration here in my opinion. Some of her voices in other audios are rather hammy but didn't find that in this one.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-11-23
Jean
Good old fashioned read beautifully and cleverly narrated. Really enjoyed it! Characters well constructed and the murderer hard to discern. Good stuff!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-08-23
Fantastic Marple adaptation.
Wonderful. Such a great reading from Emilia Fox. Classic Marple brought to life keeps you guessing to the very end.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-05-23
Good story
Enjoyed this very much. One or two of the voices not that good but rest was green.
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