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.

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 ".

In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

From 2004 to 2005, Japanese TV network NHK produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which features both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie, who produced a long series of books featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the reader to try to unravel.

She is probably best known for her 1960s performances as Miss Marple in several films based loosely on Agatha Christie's novels.

In the early 1960s she became synonymous with Miss Jane Marple in a series of four films loosely based on the novels of Agatha Christie.

From 1993 to 2001, June Whitfield played Miss Marple in 12 radio adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple books.

* In Nemesis by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple references Gretna Green in passing, noting: " There was no need for them to fly off to Gretna Green, they were of sufficiently mature age to marry.

The 1992 WGBH-TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple mystery The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side centers around the shooting of a fictitious film about Elisabeth.

In 1980, Masterpiece gained a sister series, Mystery !, featuring a mix of contemporary and classic British detective and crime series, such as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Agatha Christie ’ s Miss Marple and Touching Evil.

* Miss Agatha Dawson ( deceased ) – a rich elderly cancer patient who died suddenly 3 years prior to the novel's action

Murder, She Wrote was never pitched as an American version of the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple, contrary to rumors.

The title comes from Murder, She Said, which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel 4: 50 from Paddington.

The character of Jessica Fletcher could be thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, and Agatha Christie herself.

* Agatha Christie – Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories

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.

Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

Like those of Miss Lemon and Arthur Hastings, the role of Inspector Japp in Poirot's career has been exaggerated by adaptations of Christie's original novels ; specifically by the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, where these characters are often introduced into stories that did not originally feature them.

Miss Marple, a character created by Agatha Christie and portrayed by Margaret Rutherford, and Margaret's husband Stringer Davis had a cameo role in The Alphabet Murders, a movie based on another of Christie's books and which featured Hercule Poirot.

It was home, until her death, of the actress Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels, and children's writer Leila Berg.

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

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

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

On 7 June 1940 Edmund Cork wrote to Christie advising her that he would have the necessary ' deed of gift ' drawn up so her husband Max would become the owner of the unpublished Miss Marple novel.

Christie duly renamed her Miss Marple novel Cover Her Face.

James's début crime novel Cover Her Face in 1962, Christie became aware of the need to think up yet another title for her Miss Marple book ; she duly wrote to Edmund Cork on 17 July 1972 asking him to send her a copy of the unpublished Miss Marple manuscript and a copy of Max's deed of gift.

On page 509 of her autobiography Christie refers to the last Poirot and Miss Marple novels that she penned during the Second World War by saying she had written an extra two books during the first years of the war in anticipation of being killed in the raids, as she was working in London.

The character of Caroline Sheppard was later acknowledged by Christie as a possible precursor to her famous detective Miss Marple.

The author does not devote her talents to the creation of thrills and shocks, but to the orderly solution of a single murder, conventional at that, instead .... Miss Christie is not only an expert technician and a remarkably good story-teller, but she knows, as well, just the right number of hints to offer as to the real murderer.

No orchestra, however, could be expected to follow a singer through quite as many adventures with pitch as Miss Pons encountered last night.

Playboy, however, had actually first showed a very slight glimpse of any pubic hair on Melodye Prentiss ' centerfold ( Miss July 1968 ), some 15 years after the magazine's introduction.

Ball had initially wanted both actors to reprise their roles on television, however, both were unavailable at the time the show went into production as Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on Burns and Allen, and Gordon was under contract by CBS to play Mr. Conklin on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks.

The speedy " Travelin ' Band ," however, bore enough similarities to " Good Golly, Miss Molly " to warrant a lawsuit by the song's publisher ; it was eventually settled out of court.

Short-lived section: A casual wear section was added to the Miss America competition in 2003, and was filtering down to state and local competitions ; however, the " casual wear " section was canceled in 2006 and is no longer in use at any level of the Miss America Program.

A visit by the school board restores order ; however, Miss Wilder leaves at the end of the fall term, and is eventually replaced by Mr. Clewett and then Mr. Owen, the latter of whom befriends Laura.

James W. Silver, a liberal Ole Miss history professor who was to publish a bestseller book condemning Mississippi's segregated society and who would soon leave the state under pressure would say however:

In 2005, the third largest pageant contest, Miss Earth, initially allowed beauty contestant Li Fan Lin to compete as " Miss Taiwan "; a week into the pageant, however, her sash was updated to " Taiwan ROC ".

As the story progresses, she starts to fall in love with Howl, although she does her best to deny it ; however when Howl begins " courting " Miss Angorian, Sophie really makes up her mind to leave because " Howl prefer Miss Angorian ", and therefore there's no reason to stay.

She noticed that Cora has been copying postcards: one of her paintings, which Miss Gilchrist claims were all painted from life, features a pier that was destroyed in the war ; however the painting was completed quite recently.

In 1963, a film adaptation entitled Murder at the Gallop was released by MGM however this version replaced Poirot with the character of Miss Marple, played by Margaret Rutherford.

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.

The main difference between Ja ' far in "" and later fictional detectives such as Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.

The circumstances of Zenobia's death, however, were not inspired by the shipwreck that ended Fuller's life but by the suicide of a certain Miss Martha Hunt, a refined but melancholy young woman who drowned herself in a river on the morning of July 9, 1845.

This could, however, make sense on the assumption that Windibank was not only interested in Miss Sutherland's money but also in her person ; that the bogus engagement covered an illicit and effectively incestous which might have been mutual, even if not ; that Miss Sutherland on at least some level knew all along who ' Hosmer Angel ' truly was ; and that Holmes was acting in her best interest in not bringing all this out in the open and avoiding a traumatic and shattering breakup of her family in the glare of sensational publicity.

It emerges, however, that Ian Murdoch was once a potential suitor to Miss Bellamy.

The St. Mary Mead of Katherine Grey, however, was in Kent, therefore not connected with Miss Marple's village.

Miss Hardbroom, however, discovers her and puts her in a jar.