What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! - Agatha Christie • BookLikes (ISBN:0671494546)

What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

by: Agatha Christie (author)

5.00 15

While two trains idle next to each other, Elspeth McGillicuddy sees a strangulation taking place from her compartment. Only the persistent Miss Jane Marple takes Elpeth's report seriously. Reader Joan Hickson was personally selected by Christie to play Miss Marple on the stage.

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Format: mass market paperback

ISBN: 9780671494544 (0671494546)

Publish date: 1973-12-15

Publisher: Pocket Books

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller

Series: Miss Marple

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Sheila's Reads rated it

6 years ago

http://Sheila.booklikes.com Sheila's Reads 5.0 4:50 FROM PADDINGTON by Agatha Christie

text 4:50 FROM PADDINGTON by Agatha Christie

I forget about Agatha Christie's books and when I read one I remember why they are still being read today. They are good! This is one of Miss Marple's books. Her friend has seen a murder on a train but no one believes her. It is up to Miss Marple to find the body and the murderer. I enjoyed th...

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Murder by Death rated it

7 years ago

http://jenn.booklikes.com Murder by Death 4.0 4.50 From Paddington (What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw)

text 4.50 From Paddington (What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw)

Ah Christie, you cunning minx you. I knew my earlier guess had low odds for being right, but I never saw that coming. I probably should have given the book a higher rating, but it started off slow and frankly, I don't feel confident yet that Christie didn't pull a rabbit out of her hat here. I ne...

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Lillelara rated it

7 years ago

http://blahblahblah.booklikes.com Lillelara 5.0 4:50 from Paddington

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I have watched the Margaret Rutherford movie adaption at least five times over the last two years, so I was pefectly aware who the murderer is going to be. But man, did I adore this book, or what? I really, really loved it. It was so much fun, especially Lucy Eyelesbarrow among the Crackenthorp crow...

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Abandoned by user rated it

7 years ago

http://moonlightreader.booklikes.com Abandoned by user 4.0 Satisfying narration by Joan Hickson

text Satisfying narration by Joan Hickson

This is narrated by Joan Hickson, who previously starred in the older Marple adaptations. Her voice is almost masculine, in the way that the voices of strong-willed elderly ladies can become masculine in later life. Miss Marple is deceiving - she is most emphatically not a fluttering, twittering o...

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