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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.
The Miss Marple of The Thirteen Problems is decidedly more shrewish and Victorian than the later character, who is often more forgiving. She certainly changes with the times, even down to wearing plimsolls in 1964’s A Caribbean Mystery. Miss Marple never married and her closest living relatives are her nephews and nieces.
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.
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.
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.
