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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.
Sep 25, 2018 · We've chosen some of our favourite facts about Agatha Christie's character, Miss Jane Marple. 1. The character was, in part, based on Agatha Christie’s own grandmother, and her grandmother’s friends. 2. Miss Marple first appeared in six short stories, written in 1927-1928.
Sep 7, 2024 · This explains why some of Miss Marple’s memories are now the same as Agatha Christie’s: Christie biographer Laura Thompson has noted that several things remembered by Miss Marple in...
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Miss Marple stayed with her in A Murder is Announced. In her later years, Miss Marple has a live-in companion named Cherry Baker, who was first introduced in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. Miss Marple epitomizes English village life.
Christie had seen her performance in a stage version of Appointment with Death and wrote, “I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple”. Miss Marple is one of Agatha Christie’s most popular sleuths. Discover the character, books and adaptations of the surprising detective here.
Oct 22, 2024 · In terms of Miss Marple’s character, a recent creation was an important influence: ‘I think it is possible that Miss Marple arose from the pleasure I had taken in portraying Dr Sheppard’s sister [Caroline] in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,’ Christie wrote in her autobiography.
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Miss Marple made her first appearance in Murder at the Vicarage first published in 1930. Miss Marple did not appear in another full length novel until The Body in the Library published in 1942, although she was the mainstay of The Thirteen Problems a book of short stories published in 1932.
