Murder, She Said Murder, She Said Murder, She Said is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the novel "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie. The production starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple along with Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow and James Robertson Justice, and features Stringer Davis, Rutherford's real life husband. MGM made three sequels, "Murder at the Gallop", "Murder Most Foul" and "Murder Ahoy!", all with Rutherford starring as Christie's famed amateur sleuth. While traveling by rail, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in the carriage of an overtaking train. The local police can find
A Murder Is Announced 23 June 1950: "A new novel by Mrs Agatha Christie always deserves to be placed at the head of any list of detective fiction and her fiftieth book, "A Murder is Announced", establishes firmly her claim to the throne of detection. The plot is as ingenious as ever, the writing more careful, the dialogue both wise and witty; while suspense is engendered from the very start, and maintained skilfully until the final revelation: it will be a clever reader indeed who anticipates this, and though Miss Christie is as usual scrupulously fair in scattering her clues, close attention to the