Meet the sweetest old lady in St. Mary Mead
Miss Jane Marple, an unassuming old lady is one of the greatest detectives in mystery fiction.
"Miss Marple was born in a small village St. Mary Mead at the age of sixty-five to seventy."
Miss Marple at a Glance
Jane Marple, usually known as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels. Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who acts as an amateur detective, and lives in the village of St. Mary Mead. She has been portrayed numerous times on screen, and is one of the most famous of Christie's creations. Her first published appearance was in issue 350 of The Royal Magazine for December 1927 with the first printing of the short story The Tuesday Night Club which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). Her first appearance in a full-lengt...
Miss Marple Links
- Will The Real Miss Marple Please Stand Up
- We all have our own ideas about who is the best Miss Marple. Unhesitatingly, I plump for Joan Hickson and I really loved the television films she made of the Miss Marple stories...
- MYSTERY! | Miss Marple
- MYSTERY! presents Miss Marple
- Miss Marple's Profile
- This site is dedicated to Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective. Provides
information on the works of Agatha Christie and her other creations, besides Hercule Poirot.
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badmsm says:
Miss Marple is one of my Agatha Christie faves! Plus, she's an avid knitter, so she's tops in the entire universe.
Rock on, Miss Marple!
Posted March 17, 2008
She can't solve anything!
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Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.
Christie has been referred to by the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels.Agatha Christie gets a clue for filmmakersEntertainment News, Michael Fleming, MediaVariety UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated individual author in the world with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her. Christie's books have been translated into (at least) 56 languages.
Her stage play The Mousetrap holds the record for the longest initial run in the world, opening at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November, 1952, and as of 2009 is still running after more than 23,000 performances. In 1955 Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master Award, and in the same year, Witness for the Prosecution was given an Edgar Award by the MWA, for Best Play. Most of her books and short stories have been filmed, some many times over (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and 4.50 From Paddington for instance), and many have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics.
In 1968 Booker Books, a subsidiary of the agri-industrial conglomerate Booker-McConnell, bought a 51 percent stake in Agatha Christie Limited, the private company that Christie had set up for tax purposes. Booker later increased its stake to 64 percent. In 1998, Booker sold its shares to Chorion, a company whose portfolio also includes the literary estates of Enid Blyton and Dennis Wheatley.Chorion
Agatha Christie Links
- The Official Agatha Christie website
- The Official Agatha Christie website. Find out all about the famous crime writer here, search her novels, play games and download a screensaver.
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie, Grand Dame of Mystery
- Agatha Christie Quotes - The Quotations Page
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