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.

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 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by Inge Langen in a West German television adaptation of The Murder at the Vicarage ( Mord im Pfarrhaus ).

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.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

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.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

* Miss Madrigal, a character in the play The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold

Writer Damon Runyon allegedly based the character Sky Masterson, the gambler-hero of " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " ( on which the musical " Guys and Dolls " is based ), on Thompson.

Both treat their own lives like those of heroines in fantastical works of fiction, with Miss Morland likening herself to a character in a Gothic novel and young Briony Tallis writing her own melodramatic stories and plays with central characters such as " spontaneous Arabella " based on herself.

* Miss Brahms, a fictional character from the British comedy show, Are You Being Served?

* Little Miss Quick, a Little Miss character

This reading is based on a connection between Y. T., a major character in Snow Crash, and the aged neo-Victorian Miss Matheson in The Diamond Age, who drops oblique references to her past as a hard-edged skateboarder.

In the 1985 film adaptation of the board game Clue, the character of Miss Scarlet cites Perry Mason to highlight Wadsworth's ( played by Tim Curry ) crime-solving capabilities.

The only unusually coated kitten in the litter was ultimately placed with breeder, Jeri Newman, who named her Miss DePesto ( after a curly-haired character in the TV series Moonlighting played by Allyce Beasley ).

In early 2003, Lady Miss Kier, formerly of the band Deee-Lite, initiated a lawsuit against Sega corporation for allegedly stealing her former persona and using it as the basis of a video game character.

The crowd staged its own mad scene in salvos of cheers and applause and finally a standing ovation as Miss Sutherland took curtain call after curtain call following a fantastic `` Mad Scene '' created on her own and with the help of the composer and the other performers.

In 1975, American director Gerard Damiano, well known for Deep Throat ( 1972 ) and The Devil in Miss Jones ( 1973 ) created the movie The Story of Joanna, highly influenced by the Story of O, by combining the motifs from one of the book's chapters and from Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit.

* Cosmo Allegretti as Mr. Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose ( both of which he also created ), Dennis the Apprentice, Miss Frog, Mr. Whispers, Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock, Uncle Ralph, was the voice of Aniforms puppet TV Fred ( a live-action on-screen puppet that appeared behind the blackboard in the Treasure House ), and was the artist behind the Magic Drawing Board.

Some changes for the new " Life With Archie " magazine, that created a " future " continuity, include the death of teacher Miss Grundy and Archie's wedding.

In 1966 Redgrave created the role of Jean Brodie in the Donald Albery production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, adapted for the stage by Jay Presson Allen from the novel by Muriel Spark.

Binder also created Miss America, a superhero who shared little other than the name with her sometime co-star Captain America.

The company added to their poultry offerings by purchasing Chicken by George, created by former Miss America Phyllis George, in 1988.

In 1997, she was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award at the Miss Universe Pageant, a recently created prize of the Miss Universe Organization.

Catalina swimwear, one of the Miss America sponsors, withdrew and created the Miss USA / Universe pageants.

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.

The character of Miss Adelaide was created specifically to fit Vivian Blaine into the musical, after Loesser decided she was ill suited to play the conservative Sarah.

Many of the people encountered have never been seen in other books: the living cut-out paper dolls created by an immortal called Miss Cuttenclip ; the anthropomorphic jigsaw puzzles known as the Fuddles ; the loquacious Rigmaroles ; the paranoid Flutterbudgets ; the living kitchen utensils of Utensia ; the anthropomorphic pastries of Bunbury ; the civilized rabbits of Bunnybury ; and the zebra, who holds geographical disputes with a crab.

" As the scheme is attracting a large number of Mainlanders to Hong Kong, it created a ' positive by-product ' to attract overseas travelers to visit Hong Kong ," said Miss Kinnie Wong, the assistant commissioner of the Tourism Commission.

The Miss Earth crown used in 2001 and the swarovski crown in 2002 – 2008 were designed and created by a multi-awarded Filipino designer named Arnel Papa.

Starting 2008, Miss Earth winners are bestowed with a special set of jewelry designed and created by Ramona Haar Fine Jewelry, a Florida-based jeweller.

The show was created by Eric Morley, the founder of Miss World, and began in 1949 by broadcasting from regional ballroom studios, with professional dancers Syd Perkin and Edna Duffield on hand to offer teaching.

* Fury remained in Infinity Inc., but was retconned into being the birth daughter of ' the Golden Age Fury ' ( a character created for the purpose of the retcon ) and being raised by the 1940s heroine Miss America.

Tony and his wife, Angi ( the former Miss California Teen USA 1987 ), created the Boselli Foundation during 1995 in Jacksonville to work with at-risk youth and help them to cultivate high self-esteem and to succeed at home, at school and at play.

During 1995 and 1996, he directed singer Björk's animated music video for the song I Miss You, and created Weekend Pussy Hunt for MSN, which was billed as " the world's first interactive web-based cartoon.

In November 2004, a documentary of Miss Norman's life and work to date, was created.

Shortly after being crowned Miss Universe in 2004, Hawkins created news during a fashion show at Westfield Miranda, an Australian shopping centre, when she tripped on the hem of her dress, which fell to the floor.

The trademark logo mascot, " Miss Chiquita ," now Chiquita Banana, was created in 1944 by Dik Browne, who is best known for his Hägar the Horrible comic strip.