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| Miss Jane Marple | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | "The Tuesday Night Club" |
| Last appearance | Sleeping Murder Marple: Twelve New Stories (2022) other writers |
| Created by | Agatha Christie |
| Portrayed by | Gracie Fields Margaret Rutherford Angela Lansbury Dulcie Gray Helen Hayes Ita Ever Joan Hickson Geraldine McEwan June Whitfield Julia McKenzie Isabella Parriss (playing young Miss Marple) Renée Michels Julie Cox (playing Miss Marple as a young woman) |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Title | Miss |
| Occupation | Amateur detective |
| Family | Raymond West (nephew) David West (great-nephew) Lionel West (great-nephew) |
| Relatives | Joan West (niece-in-law) Mabel Denham (niece) Henry (uncle) Antony (cousin) Gordon (cousin) Fanny Godfrey (cousin)[1] Lady Ethel Merridew (cousin)[2] Thomas (uncle) Helen (aunt) Diana "Bunch" Harmon (goddaughter) |
| Religion | Church of England (Christian) |
| Nationality | British |
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 characterized as an elderly spinster,[3][4] she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen. Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Royal Magazine in December 1927, "The Tuesday Night Club",[5] which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). 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.
- ^ At Bertram's Hotel – page 141
- ^ At Bertram's Hotel – page 138
- ^ Mezel, Kathy (Winter 2007). "Spinsters, Surveillance, and Speech: The Case of Miss Marple, Miss Mole, and Miss Jekyll". Journal of Modern Literature. 30 (2). Indiana University Press: 103–120. doi:10.2979/JML.2007.30.2.103. JSTOR 4619330. S2CID 162411534.
- ^ agathachristie.com: Facts about Miss Marple
- ^ Curran, John (2011). Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making. New York: Harper. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-06-206542-1.