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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; W. Raymond West (character) This page was last edited on 24 October 2024, at 10:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The amateur detective (Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher, Lord Peter Wimsey); From outside the field of criminal investigation, but gifted with knowledge, curiosity, desire for justice, etc. The private investigator (Cordelia, Holmes, Marlowe, Spade, Poirot, Magnum, Millhone); Works professionally in criminal and civic investigations, but outside ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Miss Marple" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Mrs Cherry Baker: Miss Marple's house cleaner. Jim Baker: Cherry's husband, who does odd jobs for Miss Marple. Miss Knight: Miss Marple's carer, sent by Marple's nephew Raymond West, to help during her recuperation. Dolly Bantry: Miss Marple's friend, present at the fête at Gossington Hall. She first appeared in the novel The Body in the Library.
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 ...
Agatha Christie herself exists in her fictional universe, as she is mentioned by a character in the Miss Marple novel The Body in the Library. In The Labours of Hercules , a character imagines a friendship between the mother of Hercule Poirot and his supposed brother Achille, and the mother of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes , perhaps implying that ...