She is not from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them and would probably have been happy to describe herself as "genteel" and a gentlewoman. Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of her nephew Raymond. In her later years, companion Cherry Baker, first introduced in The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side, lives in. She was briefly looked after by her irritating companion, Miss Knight. Miss Marple employs young women (including Clara, Emily, Alice, Esther, Gwenda, and Amy) from a nearby orphanage, whom she trains for service as general housemaids after the retirement of her long-time maid-housekeeper, faithful Florence. Raymond overestimates himself and underestimates his aunt's mental acuity. Her nephew, the "well-known author" Raymond West ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964), appears in some stories, including The Thirteen Problems, Sleeping Murder and Ingots of Gold (which also feature his wife, Joyce Lemprière). Miss Marple never married and has no close living relatives. In several stories, she is able to rely on her acquaintance with Sir Henry Clithering, a retired commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, for official information when required. She also has a remarkable ability to latch onto a casual comment and connect it to the case at hand. Crimes always remind her of a previous incident, although acquaintances may be bored by analogies that often lead her to a deeper realisation about the true nature of a crime. Mary Mead, over her lifetime, has given her seemingly infinite examples of the negative side of human nature. Miss Marple solves difficult crimes thanks to her shrewd intelligence, and St. In later books, she becomes a kinder and more modern person.
Mary Mead like her but are often tired of her nosy nature and the fact she seems to expect the worst of everyone. This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman. The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books. Ĭhristie may have taken the name from Marple railway station, through which she passed, or from Marple Hall, near her sister Margaret Watts' home at Abney Hall. This change saddened Christie and she determined to give old maids a voice: Miss Marple was born. When Michael Morton adapted the novel for the stage, he replaced the character of Caroline with a young girl. Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Christie attributed the inspiration for the character to a number of sources, stating that Miss Marple was "the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my step grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl". The character of Miss Marple is based on friends of Christie's step grandmother/aunt (Margaret Miller, née West). 3.2 Miss Marple short story collections.Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, and her last appearance was in Sleeping Murder in 1976. Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Royal Magazine in December 1927, " The Tuesday Night Club", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Julie Cox (playing Miss Marple as a young woman) Isabella Parriss (playing young Miss Marple) Luckily, nothing is likely to stop Fran's sleuthing partner, Libby, from getting involved to help hunt down the murderer.Fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels The will is missing, and long-lost relatives are obstructing the case, both of which are suspicious on their own, even before the bodies start piling up. There is something not quite right about the death of her aunt.and psychic investigator Fran Castle is sure of it.
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