"a long-running character in Christie's works, appearing in 33 novels and 54 short stories. Miss Jane Marple, introduced in the short-story collection ""The Thirteen Problems"" in 1927, was based on Christie's grandmother and her ""Ealing cronies"". Both Jane and Gran ""always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and were, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right."" Marple appeared in 12 novels and 20 stories. During the Second World War, Christie wrote two novels, ""Curtain"" and ""Sleeping Murder"", intended as the last cases of these two great detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Both books were sealed in a bank"
"Miss Marple Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. An elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective, she is one of the most loved and famous of Christie's 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"", 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"""
"parodied as ""Miss Marbles"" by Elsa Lanchester. Miss Marple Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. An elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective, she is one of the most loved and famous of Christie's 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"", which later became the first chapter of ""The Thirteen Problems"" (1932). Her first appearance in a full-length novel"
"Agatha Christie's Marple Agatha Christie's Marple (or simply Marple) is a British ITV television series loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role, and by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. Following the conclusion of the sixth series, it was announced that the BBC had acquired the rights for the production of Agatha Christie adaptations, suggesting that ITV would be unable to make a seventh series of ""Marple"". Each series consists of four"
"Butler, at Sidbury Cemetery in Devon. Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Joan Hickson Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series ""Miss Marple"". She also narrated a number of ""Miss Marple"" stories on audio books. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Boarding at Oldfield School at Swanage in Dorset she went on to train at RADA in London."
"Joan Hickson Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series ""Miss Marple"". She also narrated a number of ""Miss Marple"" stories on audio books. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Boarding at Oldfield School at Swanage in Dorset she went on to train at RADA in London. Making her stage debut in 1927, she worked for several years throughout"
"Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, ""The Mousetrap"", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon."
"Margaret Rutherford Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was a British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple. She first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's ""Blithe Spirit"", and Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for her role as The Duchess of Brighton in ""The V.I.P.s"" (1963). Rutherford was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame"
"Spall in drag) tells her life story in cabaret form before an audience. ""Without Walls"" TV Series (UK) 5 October 1993. The English PEN International Centre included several readings of poems by Rutherford on a list entitled Library of Recordings.pdf (1953). The works listed were: Margaret Rutherford Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was a British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple. She first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's ""Blithe Spirit"", and"
"St. Mary Mead St. Mary Mead was the fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel ""The Mystery of the Blue Train"". In that novel, St. Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book in 1930, when it was the setting for the first Marple novel, ""The Murder at the Vicarage"". Miss Marple's"
"nurses. As well as this there were some very large hotels and three film studios: Lemville, Elstree and Hellingforth. St. Mary Mead St. Mary Mead was the fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel ""The Mystery of the Blue Train"". In that novel, St. Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book"
"""Endless Night"". The exterior of Marina Gregg's house in ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"" were filmed at North Mymms Park. The cemetery in ""Nemesis"" was filmed at Waverley Abbey. Agatha Christie's Marple Agatha Christie's Marple (or simply Marple) is a British ITV television series loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role, and by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. Following the conclusion of the sixth series, it was announced that"
"Miss Marple) worked at a cosmetic company. After lukewarm reviews of her two previous novels, Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) felt that the writer was back on form in his review in ""The Guardian""'s issue of 11 December 1964: ""Mrs Agatha Christie has done it again. In ""A Caribbean Mystery"" she tells the reader explicitly what is going to happen; and yet when it does, nine out of ten will be taken completely by surprise – as I was. How ""does"" she do it? For the rest, it is Miss Marple this time who is in charge of the story;"
"in 2004, ITV broadcast a series of adaptations of Agatha Christie's books under the title ""Agatha Christie's Marple"", usually referred to as ""Marple."" Geraldine McEwan starred in the first three series. Julia McKenzie took over the role in the fourth season. The adaptations are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books (e.g. incorporating lesbian affairs, changing the identities of some killers, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature). In the Geraldine McEwan series it is revealed that when she was young (portrayed by"
"a photograph by James Viles. A BBC television film adaptation from 1987 starred Joan Hickson in the title role as Miss Marple. ITV broadcast its adaptation on 23 September 2007 as part of the third series of ""Marple"", starring Geraldine McEwan. This version included many substantial changes to the plot, characters, atmosphere and the finale of the original novel: At Bertram's Hotel At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November 1965 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following"
"Miss Marple (TV series) Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC One. All 12 original Miss Marple Christie novels were dramatised. The adaptations were written by T. R. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Plater, Ken Taylor and Jill Hyem, and the series was produced by George Gallaccio. In addition to its availability on VHS and DVD, the series began to be released on Blu-ray Disc in October 2014, marking its 30th"
"Marple"", introducing Mabel West (daughter of Miss Marple's mystery-writer nephew Raymond West, a canonical Christie character) and her duck Oliver as new characters. Adaptations of Agatha Christie Adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie: Episodes of the television series ""Miss Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" include: Many of Christie's novels have been adapted for BBC Radio over the course of several years. However the most prominent productions were the dramatisations of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories: Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and Lizzy Watts as"
"in 1930. The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's step grandmother/aunt (Margaret Miller, née West), and her cronies. Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple 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"". Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"". When Michael"
"9 June 2015, included the episodes ""A Caribbean Mystery"", ""At Bertram’s Hotel"", "" Sleeping Murder"", and ""Nemesis"" along with the bonus material ""A Very British Murder, Part 3: The Golden Age"". Miss Marple (TV series) Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC One. All 12 original Miss Marple Christie novels were dramatised. The adaptations were written by T. R. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Plater, Ken Taylor and Jill Hyem, and"
"The Thirteen Problems The Thirteen Problems is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in June 1932 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1933 under the title The Tuesday Club Murders. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The thirteen stories feature the amateur detective Miss Marple, her nephew Raymond West, and her friend Sir Henry Clithering. They are the earliest stories Christie wrote about Miss Marple. As in some of her other short story collections"
"The Murder at the Vicarage The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. It is the first novel to feature the character of Miss Marple, although the character had previously appeared in short stories published in ""The Royal Magazine"" and ""The Story-Teller Magazine"", starting in December 1927. These earlier"
"Adaptations of Agatha Christie Adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie: Episodes of the television series ""Miss Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" include: Many of Christie's novels have been adapted for BBC Radio over the course of several years. However the most prominent productions were the dramatisations of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories: Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and Lizzy Watts as Ellie Starring Hugh Bonneville as Nevile and Marcia Warren as Lady Tresselian Starring Melinda Walker as Emily Trefusis, Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Enderby,"
"won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1990 television serial ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", and from 2004 to 2009, she starred as the Agatha Christie sleuth Miss Marple, in the ITV series ""Marple"". She was born Geraldine McKeown on 9 May 1932 in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, to Donald and Norah (née Burns) McKeown. She had Irish ancestors; her maternal grandfather came from Kilkenny while her paternal grandfather came from Belfast. Her father, a printers' compositor, ran the Labour Party branch in Old Windsor, a safe Conservative seat. McEwan won a scholarship to attend Windsor"
"Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others,"
"At Bertram's Hotel At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November 1965 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) and the US edition at $4.50. It features the detective Miss Marple. Miss Marple takes a two-week vacation in London, at Bertram's Hotel, where she stayed in her youth. The hotel has a personality of its own, and a niche clientele of important church people, older women who lived through"
"Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in October 1979 retailing at £4.50. It was the last Christie book to be published under the Collins Crime Club imprint although HarperCollins continue to be the writer's UK publishers. The book contains eight short stories and did not appear in the United States; however, in 2010, an audio book and the Kindle edition were released, which included six stories from the book, plus ""Greenshaw's"
"magazine publication of all the stories is as follows: Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in October 1979 retailing at £4.50. It was the last Christie book to be published under the Collins Crime Club imprint although HarperCollins continue to be the writer's UK publishers. The book contains eight short stories and did not appear in the United States; however, in 2010, an audio book and the Kindle edition were released,"
"of Miss Marple, this one smoked cigarettes. In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel ""A Pocket Full of Rye"" (using the Russian edition's translated title, ""The Secret of the Blackbirds"") as the character of Miss Marple. American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of ""Goodyear TV Playhouse"" based on ""A Murder Is Announced"", the 1950 Christie novel. In 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by Inge"
"at the house when the first murder takes place and Lawson attempts to swim across the lake, and does not use a rotted boat. A third adaptation was aired on 1 January 2010 for the fourth season of the ITV series ""Agatha Christie's Marple"", starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple, Penelope Wilton as Carrie Louise, Brian Cox as Lewis Serrocold, and Joan Collins as Ruth Van Rydock. This adaptation has several notable changes and additions: There is a French television production aired in 2013, ""Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie"", season two, first episode, ""Jeux de glaces"", which can mean ""Game"
"in two abridged instalments from July (Volume XCIII, Number 7) to August 1976 (Volume XCIII, Number 8) with an illustration by Fred Otnes. Sleeping Murder Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95. The book features Miss Marple. It was the last Christie novel, published posthumously, although not the last one Christie wrote"
"Sleeping Murder Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95. The book features Miss Marple. It was the last Christie novel, published posthumously, although not the last one Christie wrote featuring Miss Marple. The story is set in the 1930s, though written during the Second World War. She aids a young couple who"
"others were modified by the show - ""Greenshaw's Folly"" and ""The Thumb Mark of St. Peter"" were combined into one story, whilst elements of ""The Herb of Death"" were incorporated into the adaptation of ""The Secret of Chimneys."" It ceased to be likely that the remaining 18 short stories would be adapted by ITV after the BBC bought the rights to produce Agatha Christie adaptations. Geraldine McEwan was nominated for a Satellite Award in 2005 for her role as Miss Marple in Series 1. The first series was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2005. ""Agatha Christie's Marple"""
"production, the part of Jason Rafiel was portrayed by Frank Gatliff, rather than Donald Pleasence. In 2013, the book was adapted for the sixth series of ITV's ""Agatha Christie's Marple"", starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple and co-starring Antony Sher as Jason Rafiel, Oliver Ford Davies as Major Palgrave, and Robert Webb and Charity Wakefield as the Kendalls. The characters are much the same as in the novel, and the location is the same. At the end, Tim tries to shoot Molly rather than poison her, but the bullets of the gun have been removed. Like some of the other"