Talk:4.50 from Paddington

message: When I read articles on novels there are two things that are almost always addressed, especially if it is a historical novel or a novel not written in the modern day. First is the obvious location, many are fictional but that is addressed as well, second and more importantly, the approximate year the book is set in. I do not see why this is not addressed in the article. Yes, you have the publication date and yes there is a blurb in there about narrowing down the time frame due to the death penalty. However, let us use 1984 as an example. The novel 1984 was published in 1947. If you only said it was published in 1947 then the reader is only getting half the information. Yes, the title appears obvious but someone who has never heard of it may not know that. The question is, do you not agree with this? MagnoliaSouth (talk) 01:23, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: , Christie's mystery novels, with perhaps two exceptions, are set when she writes them. This novel refers to the second world war as past, and to taxation as high (needed to rebuild the war-damaged nation), and to one son having been killed in WWII. This is not a historical novel, but a mystery novel. All of that seems clear to me in reading the novel, and in the plot summary. I do not understand your reference to the death penalty. The setting of films and tv adaptations is another matter altogether. The plot summary and explanation of the title are based on the novel alone.  --Prairieplant (talk) 12:40, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , Sorry for such a delayed response, I actually had the flu when I wrote that and must've been much more sick than I thought! It's been years since I posted it and I honestly don't even remember writing it either. I sure remember that flu though! That was a doozy. I must've posted this in the wrong place; that's all I can think of. I've read this book dozens of times and actually, it is the first adult novel I ever read in my life. Many thanks though for your kind response, even if you probably thought I was crazy. lol! MagnoliaSouth (talk) 17:19, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Setting? 

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message: The lead for this novel lacks the source and retail price for the UK edition. It also needs the source usually used for the publisher and date for the US edition. The secondary source is already in the text, and the price information from is included as well, as it is an online source (J S Marcus). See A Caribbean Mystery as an example for the flow of the opening paragraph in the lead. The refs here, as seen on the edit, are in cite format & can be inserted as is (as long as the page numbers are the same), once the needed information is found in them.
:This is used as source for price and first publication date and publisher for UK edition, does page 15 list it for all the novels? There is no google book for this, and it comes up in no libraries on WorldCat, so who has the book?
:This is used as source for publication date of US edition, though month, year and publisher are in the US/J S Marcus source as well. This Cooper, Pike reference is listed on WorldCat at several libraries in the US, Canada and the UK.
  --Prairieplant (talk) 08:24, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need someone to check usual sources for price, publisher and date of publication for UK edition