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Miss Marple never married and has no close living relatives.

Her nephew, the " well-known author " Raymond West appears in Vicarage, his wife Joan ( initially Joyce ), a modern artist, in The Thirteen Problems.

Raymond overestimates himself and underestimates his aunt's mental acuity.

Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".

Miss Marple also employs young women from a nearby orphanage, whom she trains for service as general housemaids after the retirement of her long-time maid-housekeeper faithful Florence.

In her later years, companion Cherry Baker, first introduced in The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side, lives in.