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Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterised as an elderly spinster, [3] [4] she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.
Miss Marple – a small town old spinster who solves a number of crimes using common sense, created by Agatha Christie; Veronica Mars – school girl whose father is a private detective, created by Rob Thomas; Amelia Peabody – Egyptologist who solves a variety of dastardly crimes in turn-of-the-century Egypt, created by Elizabeth Peters.
Miss Marple: resident of the village of Saint Mary Mead who has much experience in solving murders. Colonel Melchett: Chief Constable of Radfordshire, where the first body is found. Dolly Bantry: a friend of her village neighbour Miss Marple. Colonel Arthur Bantry: retired soldier, husband of Dolly, and owner of extensive property.
Among the lodgers at the hotel is Christie's popular character Miss Marple; At Bertram's Hotel was marketed as a Miss Marple novel, despite the fact that Marple only appears in a few chapters and has a completely passive role in the investigation. At Bertram's Hotel met with mostly positive reviews. Reviewers criticized the reliance of far ...
The appearance of Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage provided detective fiction with a new and distinctive character. Miss Marple, that delightfully clever village spinster who solves the most amazing mysteries quietly and unobtrusively from her chair by the fireside, appears in each of the stories comprising The Thirteen Problems. Each ...
The n-word and the term ‘Oriental’ are among the language being removed from new editions
Miss Lemon first appeared as the secretary to government agent-turned-amateur detective and philanthropist, Mr (James) Parker Pyne, in the short story collection Parker Pyne Investigates. Angela Easterling played the character in two episodes of the 1982 anthology The Agatha Christie Hour (adapting the Parker Pyne stories).
Miss Marple is one of the two great detective creations of Agatha Christie, the best known of all the "Golden Age" writers. Miss Marple is an amiable elderly spinster who first appeared in 1927. Her detective feats are largely based on her profound knowledge of human nature, gained (she maintains) from closely observing life in her small village.