Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple doesn’t look like your average detective. Quite frankly, she doesn’t look like a detective at all. But looks can be deceiving... 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.

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Featured stories

The Murder at the Vicarage
Miss Marple
The Thirteen Problems
Miss Marple
The Body in the Library
Miss Marple
The Moving Finger
Miss Marple
A Murder is Announced
Miss Marple
They Do it with Mirrors
Miss Marple
A Pocket Full of Rye
Miss Marple
Greenshaw's Folly
Miss Marple
4.50 From Paddington
Miss Marple
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Did you know?

Joan Hickson received two BAFTA nominations for her Miss Marple, but had the even greater honour of being written to by Agatha Christie, long before she was old enough to take on the role of Marple. Christie had seen her performance in a stage version of Appointment with Death and wrote, “I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple”.

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