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4.50 from Paddington

For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train sped off. But did she just witness a murder? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all... Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, who returns to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw

Print Book, English, 1957
Published for the Crime Club by Collins, St James's Place, London, 1957