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The average rating for And Brothers All based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

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Review # 2 was written on 2013-08-01 00:00:00 Isaiah Sanchez 4:50 From Paddington (Miss Marple, #8), Agatha Christie Mrs Elspeth McGillicuddy is on her way from a shopping expedition to visit her old friend Jane Marple for Christmas. Her train passes another train running parallel and in the same direction as her train. Then, a blind in one compartment flies up and she sees a man with his back to her strangling a woman. She reports it to a sceptical ticket collector who passes the report for investigation. When arriving at Miss Marple's cottage, she tells all to her. Mrs McGillicuddy describes the dying woman as having blonde hair and wearing a fur coat and the man as tall and dark, though she saw only his back. Miss Marple believes her story, knowing her friend to be trustworthy in description. With no report of a body found in the next day's news, Miss Marple sets out to determine where the body is. With a good map and several rides on the trains to feel the effect of a sharp curve on standing passengers, she determines that the body is on the grounds of Rutherford Hall. Miss Marple sends Lucy Eyelesbarrow, a young professional cook and housekeeper, to work at Rutherford Hall and find the body. Luther Crackenthorpe is a semi-invalid widower who lives in Rutherford Hall with his daughter Emma. Luther's father wrote a will that left his property for his eldest grandson, not liking his son. Luther receives the income for life. After Luther's death, the capital is to be divided equally among Luther's surviving children, not unlike a tontine pension. The share of cash rises to the living children as each sibling dies before their father dies. Edmund, the firstborn son, died during World War II. Youngest daughter Edith ("Edie"), died four years before the novel begins, leaving a son, Alexander. The remaining children are Cedric, an Ibiza-based bohemian painter; Harold, a married banker; Alfred, who engages in shady business dealings; and Emma. Others at the family home include Alexander's father Bryan Eastley, and Alexander's school friend James Stoddart-West, and local physician Dr Quimper, who looks after Luther but is in love with Emma. Lucy uses golf practice as a way to search the grounds. She discovers fur from a woman's fur coat caught on a bush. Then she finds a cheap compact. Lucy takes these to Miss Marple, who believes the murderer knew all about Rutherford Hall. He removed the body from the embankment where it had fallen away from the railway, drove a car outside the grounds at night and hid the body. Lucy finds the woman's body hidden in a sarcophagus in the old stables containing Luther's collection of dubious antiques. Who was she? ... Original publication year 1957 Characters: Miss Jane Marple, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, Mrs McGillicuddy. عنوانها: «قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون»؛ «قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون و اعلام یک قتل»؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز دوازدهم ماه دسامبر سال 2006میلادی عنوان یک: قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون، مترجم: محمدعلی ایزدی، نشر تهران، کتاب هرمس، کتابهای کارآگاه، 1384، در 343ص.، شابک 9643633268؛ موضوع داستانهای کارآگاهی از نویسندگان انگلیسی - سده 20م ‏عنوان دو: قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون و اعلام یک قتل، مترجم: محمدعلی ایزدی، نشر تهران، کتاب هرمس، کتابهای کارآگاه، 1388، در 720ص، شابک 9789643636203؛ ‏يادداشت ‏‫کتاب حاضر دو کتاب است در یک مجلد: «قطار ساعت 4:50 از پدینگتون» و «اعلام یک قتل»، هر دو با ترجمه: محمدعلی ایزدی، هریک از عنوانها جداگانه نیز چاپ شده اند خانم «مک‌ گیلکادی» که از دوستان صمیمی «دوشیزه مارپل» است، در حین سفر در قطار، در حالی که از پنجره قطار مشغول تماشای بیرون است، شاهد صحنه ی قتل زن جوانی، در قطار روبرو می‌شود؛ او ماجرا را برای «دوشیزه مارپل» بازگو میکند، و خانم «مارپل» پی‌گیر داستان می‌شود، و زنی به نام «لوسی آیلس‌ بارو» را می­یابد، و ...؛ تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 28/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی