CHRISTIE, Agatha 4.50 From Paddington. London: Collins Crime Club.1957.
8vo. Original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine, "The Holliday Bookshop" label stamped to rear pastedown; grey dust jacket with titles in white and with a red banner; pp. [iv]; 256; light bumping to top and bottom of spine; minimal offsetting from front and rear pastedowns and to ffep; foxing to inner front panel of dustjacket with slight browning to rear panel; otherwise very good.
First UK edition
As two trains rush past each other, the eminent Miss Marple's friend, Mrs. McGillicuddy, witnesses a murder in the neighbouring trains carriage. Who was the woman, where is the corpse and how will the women find the perpetrator?
4.50 From Paddington was the Agatha Christie novel which went through the most extensive evolution in title. Although the original manuscript was named 4.54 and changed at the last moment, not only did the timings experience three different variations, but when it was published in the US in the same year, it was published under the name What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw!.
The book was adapted to the screen in 1961 and was the very first Miss Marple movie. It starred Margaret Rutherford in her first appearance playing the detective out of the four Miss Marple films in which she would feature,
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