Who is miss marple

Agatha Christie's Marple. Agatha Christie's Marple: Season 1. Photos Top cast Edit. Stephen Churchett Coroner as Coroner. Griff Rhys Jones Dr. David Quimper as Dr. David Quimper. John Owens Photographer as Photographer. Juliet Stevenson Gwenda as Gwenda. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Based on Dame Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories, this show followed the adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St.

Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve.

Although the Police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Did you know Edit. Trivia The twenty-three episodes of this series are adapted from Dame Agatha Christie 's twelve feature-length novels featuring Miss Marple, two Miss Marple short stories, and nine feature-length novels that do not feature Miss Marple in them at all.

Connections Featured in Britain's Favourite Detectives User reviews 27 Review. Top review. Let Go of Your Expectations. Her first published appearance was in issue of The Royal Magazine for December with the first printing of the short story The Tuesday Night Club which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in Miss Jane Marple is an elderly lady who lives in the little English village of St.

She looks like an ordinary old lady, dressed neatly in tweed and is frequently seen knitting or pulling weeds in her garden. Miss Marple sometimes comes across as confused or "fluffy", but when it comes to solving mysteries, she has a sharp logical mind, and an almost unmatched understanding of human nature with all its weaknesses, strengths, quirks and foibles.

In the detective story tradition, she often embarrasses the local "professional" police by solving mysteries that have them stumped. The name Miss Marple was derived from the name of the railway station in Marple, on the Manchester to Sheffield Hope Valley line, at which Agatha Christie was once delayed long enough to have actually noticed the sign.

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. This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman. The citizens of St. Mary Mead like her but are often tired by her nosy nature and how she seems to expect the worst of everyone.

In later books, she becomes more modern and a kinder person. Miss Marple never married and has no close living relatives. Vicarage introduced Miss Marple's nephew, the "well-known author" Raymond West. His wife Joan initially called Joyce , a modern artist, was introduced in in The Thirteen Problems. Raymond tends to be overconfident in himself and underestimates Miss Marple's mental powers.

She has a niece called Mabel Denman , who doesn't appear to be a sister of Raymond's. Mabel appears in the short story The Thumb Mark of St.

Miss Marple stayed with her in A Murder is Announced. Miss Marple is able to solve difficult crimes not only because of her shrewd intelligence but because St. Mary Mead, over her lifetime, has given her seemingly infinite examples of the negative side of human nature. No crime can arise without reminding Miss Marple of some parallel incident in the history of her time.

Miss Marple's acquaintances are sometimes bored by her frequent analogies to people and events from St. Mary Mead, but these analogies often lead Miss Marple to a deeper realization about the true nature of a crime. This education, history, and experience are hinted at in the Margaret Rutherford films, in which Miss Marple mentions her awards at marksmanship and fencing although these hints are played for comedic value.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder , in Now, before you start to feel bad for Jane Marple, remember when I say not as many people read her books, they have still sold millions of copies.

She is still arguably the most beloved woman detective in literature. So this post is a celebration of Miss Marple and several other great ladies from the land of cozy mysteries! Jane Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and often finds herself at the center of mysteries.

While seemingly a bothersome busybody, especially in her earlier stories, Miss Marple is actually as clever as a fox and as observant as a hawk. Her habit of imagining the worst in everyone pays off when it comes to solving crimes, and she winds up working as an amateur consulting detective quite often. She may come off as a nosy old crone, but try underestimating her and see where that gets you.

Miss Marple shows young readers of her books that older people are not doddering or useless. And she reinforces to older readers that they still have worth and can still have adventures in their old age. In her forthcoming memoir, Two Truths and a Lie , real-life private detective Ellen McGarrahan mentions that during her training, her instructor told her that women make the best detectives because society continues to underestimate them.

More on her later. Someone calling things the best is subjective, but I do fancy myself a bit of an amateur Agatha Christie expert. I have read all of her books at least three times, and some a few times more. So here are the Marple books I would call her best:. The Murder at the Vicarage : Miss Marple's first novel; in it, she must figure out who killed St. Mary Mead's most detested man.