Miss marple who is she

Miss Marple first appeared in six short stories, written in The first full-length novel, written and published in , is called The Murder at the Vicarage. She has an unusual background for a sleuth, with no background in criminology or the police force. She lives in St Mary Mead, a small English village with a local pub, a handful of shops, the vicarage as well as the Gossington Hall estate. Jane Marple is house-proud, and has had a host of different housemaids, many of whom she takes in from an orphanage and trains in housekeeping skills.

A caring employer with a passion for justice, Miss Marple seeks revenge when a former maid is murdered in A Pocket Full of Rye. She is an independent spirit who enjoys travelling to visit friends in the UK and further afield. However, almost all of the Miss Marple mysteries are set in an English village or country house, with a handful of exceptions.

For a woman who has spent her life in the small village of St Mary Mead, Miss Marple is surprisingly worldly. But as she often points out she has had every opportunity to observe human nature.

Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner — Miss Weatherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is much more dangerous. What makes Miss Marple so effective as a detective is her ability to blend into the background, and for her shrewd intelligence to be hidden behind her love of knitting, gardening and gossip; unassuming and often overlooked, she has the freedom to pursue the truth. Criminals and murderers fail to realise that with every stitch she is not only making a cardigan, but solving a crime.

Natural genius cultivated in suitable soil. It was first published in the December issue of Royal Magazine. While Agatha Christie acknowledged that her grandmother had been a huge influence on the character, she writes that Miss Marple was "far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was. But one thing she did have in common with her — though a cheerful person, she always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and was, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right.

The Miss Marple of The Thirteen Problems is decidedly more shrewish and Victorian than the later character, who is often more forgiving. It stands to reason—they are two of her three best-selling books.

The first is a stand-alone mystery suspense novel, and the latter features her most famous character, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. But what about her dear Miss Marple? 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.