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"For an instant the two trains ran 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. She watched on as the body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Mrs. McGillicuddy's friend Jane Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there are no other witnesses, no suspects, and no case. How could there be, with no corpse...
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Marple volume ser. 1, 4
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Two trains briefly draw alongside each other as they race past a country house and - to her horror - Miss Marple's friend Mrs. McGillicuddy witnesses a man in a passing train car strangling a mystery woman.
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Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
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Sleeping murder: When Giles and Gwenda Reed move into their dream house in a seaside resort, Gwenda is haunted by the vision of a body in the hall. Miss Marple uses her keen intuition to solve the murder of Gwenda's stepmother that took place in the house while Gwenda was living there during her childhood.
4:50 from Paddington: On her way to visit Miss Marple, Elspeth McGillicuddy glimpses a man strangling a woman on a passing train. Police fail...
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Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
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Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling across Miss Marple's path.
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There's a murderer on the moors. Terror on the train. Villains in the village! Only the world's greatest deductive minds can save the day. Fortunately, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple are together, for the first time ever, to confront their most confounding cases.
10) Murder, she said
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"Who's that in the frilly cap and apron, toting a tea tray? Not a pert French maid, but spinster sleuth Miss Marple in disguise. And it's not Darjeeling that's caught her interest -- it's murder! Margaret Rutherford makes her first appearance in this sly, engaging mystery based on Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington. Comfily ensconced in her railway carriage, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of baffling...
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Marple volume ser. 1, 2
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Dolly Bantry enlists Miss Marple's help after she and her husband find the body of a mystery woman in their library. When news spreads that a glamorous exhibition dancer has disappeared from the hotel where she worked, the victim--if not the murderer--is identified. Then another body is discovered ...
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"They Do It with Mirrors": Miss Marple must solve a crime in a rambling country mansion being used for the rehabilitation of young criminals. "A Pocketful of Rye": An old nursery rhyme comes true in a grotesque double murder. Only Miss Marple sees the connection and that the next victim will be an old acquaintance - unless she can uncover the murderer in time. "4.50 from Paddington": A deadly family intrigue as a murder is witnessed from a passing...
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"Mystery of the Blue Train"--Hercule Poirot is brought in to find the murderer of Rufus Van Aldin's daughter and to find the thief of the "Heart Of Fire" necklace.
"Death in the Air"--Also titled "Death in the Clouds" : Hercule Poirot investigates the poison-dart death of a woman passenger on his flight from France to England.
"What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw"--Also titled "4:50 From Paddington": Miss Marple helps her friend, Mrs. McGillicuddy, prove...
20) Paddington: 2
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While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's hundredth birthday, Paddington sees a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it's up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief.
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