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While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

Excluding " Sleeping Murder ", forty-one years passed between the first and last-written novels, and many characters grow and age.

An example would be the Vicar's son.

At the end of The Murder at the Vicarage, the Vicar's wife is pregnant.

In The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, it is mentioned that the son is now grown and successful and has a career.

The effects of ageing are seen on Miss Marple, such as needing a vacation after illness in A Caribbean Mystery or finding in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side that because of poor eyesight she can no longer knit.