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A little slow, but more is explained and the murder itself doesn't seem quite as contrived as the Rutherford film. And nearly gets away with it, but for an unexpected witness. I will say this, the same perpetrator in the Margaret Rutherford movie does the deed again in 4:50 From Paddington Station. And they've got an ailing patriarch with one of those crazy wills that provide a host of relatives as suspects. The Crackenthorpes are wealthy British family, new money, they got rich manufacturing breakfast cereal. At that point she sends in Jill Meager as an operative so to speak. At that point Hickson goes into action and determines that the body was most likely thrown off near the Crackenthorpe estate. This version is faithful to the Christie story and has a friend of Miss Marple see the strangling of a woman and her being thrown out the window of a train going the other way. Joan Hickson's Jane Marple is a milder sort, but still a woman who doesn't miss much. Rutherford's character serves as both and one of the biggest strengths of the film is Rutherford doing her own scouting and sleuthing and her scenes with ailing family patriarch James Robertson Justice are a hoot and a half. For the big screen the characters of the woman who saw the strangling on a passing train and the woman who Miss Marple sends in as a housekeeper to scout out the terrain are eliminated. Comparing the two is six of one, half a dozen of the other. 4:50 From Paddington Station was also the first Agatha Christie Miss Marple story to be adapted for Margaret Rutherford in Murder She Said.

The drama was broadcast on Japan's channel 5 as part of a weekend Agatha Christie special on 24th March 2018. Where did the dead body disappear to? When a second murder occurs, Toko wonders what connects the cases, and seeks to get to the bottom of it. The residence is inhabited by the president of a company and his family - a suspicious group of characters with secrets to hide. In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. Predicting that the dead body was thrown into the grounds of the palatial residence alongside the railway line, she engages “someone” to sneak in. 'Where the Lost Wander: A Novel' by Amy Harmon for 7.99. Toko believes her and starts probing into the matter, deducing that the criminal threw the dead body from the train. Neither the train conductor nor the police take her report seriously, assuming she was half asleep.

The story begins one evening when, as Toko’s stepmother is aboard the Orion Express train, she witnesses a man strangling a woman. Toko is played by popular Japanese actress Yuki Amami. In this richly-produced drama, the Miss Marple character has become Toko Amano, a successful police officer and professional in risk management. 4.50 from Paddington - Night Express Train Murder (パディントン発4時50分 ～寝台特急殺人事件～) is a Japanese language adaptation from TV Asahi.