22 NOVEMBER 1957, Page 62

It's a Crime

4.50 From Paddington. By Agatha Christie. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) The plots are so improbable, the characters so puppet-like, the style so stilted and the coincidences cluster so thickly, that it is resentfully that the reviewer reports that Miss Christie is always readable-even in this story of a murder in one train seen from another, and solved by a dear old drinker of cowslip wine.