Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

Poirot was voiced by Kōtarō Satomi and Miss Marple was voiced by Kaoru Yachigusa.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.

Illustration by Gilbert Wilkinson of Miss Marple from the December 1927 issue of The Royal Magazine and the first-known image of the character ( See The Thirteen Problems # First publication of stories | The Thirteen Problems )

The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

This change saddened Christie and she determined to give old maids a voice: Miss Marple was born.

The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman.

Miss Marple never married and has no close living relatives.

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.

Miss Marple solves difficult crimes because of her shrewd intelligence, and St. Mary Mead, over her lifetime, has given her seemingly infinite examples of the negative side of human nature.

Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of Raymond West, her nephew ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 ).

In They Do It with Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is revealed that, in her distant youth, Miss Marple spent time in Europe at a finishing school.

She is not herself from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them ; Miss Marple would probably have been happy to describe herself as a gentlewoman.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.

( Ruth, prevailing on Miss Marple's long affection for them, arranges for Miss Marple to investigate Ruth's belief that Carrie Louise is in danger of her life.

The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.

Looking back, Miss Marsicano feels that her ideas may have been influenced by those of Jackson Pollock.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Interesting accounts of the impression produced by the performance at Rome may be found in the first volume of Felix Mendelssohn's letters and in Miss Taylor's Letters from Italy.

On award of the MRCS examination, surgeons may hold the title ' Mister ' or ' Miss / Ms ' rather than doctor.

Holmes has been known to charge clients for his expenses, and to claim any reward that might be offered for the problem's solution: he says in " The Adventure of the Speckled Band " that Miss Stoner may pay any expenses he may be put to, and requests that the bank in " The Red-Headed League " remunerate him for the money he spent solving the case.

Alternatively, if using the traditional French plurals (" Messieurs " for Mr., and " Mesdemoiselles " for Miss ) one may use " Mesdames " ( abbreviation " Mmes.

Pageants may be multicultural or racially specific, such as the Miss Chinese International Pageant, Miss Black America or Miss Indian America.

In some countries, " Citizen " may be used instead of Mister or Miss.

" In the United States Navy there is an internal practice aboard ships that junior officers who are not in command may be addressed by their rank or as " Mister / Miss X " as in " Lieutenant Junior Grade Smith " or " Miss Smith ".

She encounters a doll ( which may or may not be " Miss Edith ") and is called by a third party, possibly her parents.

Campbell was also first-runner-up in the 1924 pageant, and when the judge's scores revealed that she had almost won the crown a third time, the pageant created a new rule that a contestant may only win the title of Miss America once ( but still allowed a contestant to compete more than once.

) Later, the rule was changed so that a contestant may only compete in the Miss America pageant once, whether or not she wins the title.

Though this may be the first published book of Miss Agatha Christie, she betrays the cunning of an old hand … You must wait for the last-but-one chapter in the book for the last link in the chain of evidence that enabled Mr. Poirot to unravel the whole complicated plot and lay the guilt where it really belonged.

Miss Marple suggests that she may be remembering something she witnessed as a small child ( looking through rather than over the banisters ), and that it may have happened in the house she has just bought, despite her belief that she has never been in England before.

* Miss Pole – Allegedly the most " reasonable " and " enlightened " of the Cranford ladies ; the reader may draw his / her own conclusions.

He finds some confederates among the Brinkmeyers ' staff ( all of whom are aspiring actors who want to attract Brinkmeyer's attention by playing their servant roles in real life ): The gardener readily supplies him with Mexican horned toads and some frogs ( to hide in Miss Brinkmeyer's room and clothes ); and Chaffinch, the butler, even suggests to him that he may be able to sell Joey's tooth to the press ( who in turn might be willing to give it to a souvenir hunter ) at the considerable price of $ 5, 000.

Successful contestants may be offered TVB's contracts and represent Hong Kong to take part at world-class beauty contests, including the Miss World Pageant.

" The Times ( UK ) states in its style guide that: " Ms is nowadays fully acceptable when a woman wants to be called thus, or when it is not known for certain if she is Mrs or Miss ".

Proponents of gender-neutral language point out that while Mr is used for men regardless of marital status, the titles Miss and Mrs indicate a woman's marital status, and thus signal her sexual availability in a way that men's titles do not.

Lucy realizes that the novel is by Miss Lavish ( the writer-acquaintance from Florence ) and that Charlotte must thus have told her about the kiss.

Miss World, Limited is a privately held firm, and thus figures for its earnings, expenses and charitable contributions are not publicly available.

It had been previously explained that Orkans aged " backwards ", thus explaining Mearth's appearance and that of his teacher, Miss Geezba ( portrayed by then 11-year-old actress Louanne Sirota ).

( When the police inspector sees Miss Marple he comments on a case of poison pen near Lymstock ; thus Sleeping Murder is set after the happenings in The Moving Finger, which was published in 1942.

In The Pale Horse, Mrs Oliver becomes acquainted with the Rev and Mrs Dane Calthrop, who are friends of Miss Marple ( The Moving Finger ); thus establishing that Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot exist in the same world.

Miss Gilchrist felt sure one was a painting by Vermeer, yet Cora had no idea how valuable the artwork was, and thus Miss Gilchrist began her desperate plot.

A passage from Alan Moorehead ´ s The White Nile ( p. 61 ) describes it thus: " The sportsman Samuel Baker and his wife had come up the Nile to look for them, and there had been others as well who had arrived at Gondokoro on the same mission, three Dutch ladies, the Baroness van Capellan and Mrs and Miss Tinne, but they had been forced to return to Khartoum through sickness.

* Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell – Captain Brown ( who is reading ' The Pickwick Papers ') denigrates Rasselas, thus offending Miss Jenkyns ( who is a great admirer of Johnson ).

The winner of the pageant is bestowed the title Miss Earth ; her runners-up are also given titles named after the other classical elements: Miss Fire ( equivalent to third runner-up ), Miss Water ( second runner-up ), and Miss Air ( first runner-up ), however, starting 2010 the runners up or the “ elemental titles ” ( Air, Water, and Fire ) are of equal importance and thus have the same ranking.

Matilda asks permission to live with Miss Honey, to which her parents agree, thus providing her with a more loving home.

However, despite most past big games being played at Legion Field, Bryant – Denny Stadium has hosted many memorable games, such as the 1994 shootout between Alabama's Jay Barker and Georgia's Eric Zeier, Marvin Constant's goal-line stop against LSU quarterback Josh Booty as time expired in 1999, Tyrone Prothro's reception over the back of Southern Miss defensive back Jasper Faulk in 2005, a 31 – 3 victory over No. 5 Florida in 2005, the Roman Harper-forced fumble against Tennessee in 2005 that helped the Tide to victory, Alabama's 36-0 shutout victory against Auburn in 2008 thus breaking the six-game losing streak and first ever Iron Bowl victory in Bryant – Denny Stadium, and Terrence Cody's field goal block against Tennessee as time expired in 2009.

This makes Mr. Wilmot break off the intended marriage with Mr. Primrose's son George and Miss Arabella Wilmot, and thus his son's happiness is almost shattered.

Machado appeared in ( and on the cover of ) the February 2006 issue of Playboy magazine's Mexican edition, thus becoming the only Miss Universe to pose nude for Playboy.

Dutta won the annual Gladrags Megamodel competition in her native India in 1995, thus winning the right to enter the 1997 Miss Intercontinental Pageant, in which she took first place.

People are machines for the sole purpose of laboring as far as the rest of society is concerned ( thus Miss Lonelyhearts ' name ), and any advice for them is as mass produced as a manual for a machine.

* Maki-Maki-A paranoid adult male frilled-lizard, who served as Miss Lewis ' assistant, and would often act as a town-crier: loudly trumpeting whatever breaking-news he'd discover, usually before checking its accuracy, and thus often being completely wrong.

On the whole, officers ' individual ranks are not used by the general public and thus, when addressing an officer, it is common to hear the term ( female-), Ukrainian for Mr ./ Miss used to refer to police officers.