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.

Miss Burke will arrive in December also.

Another debutante, Miss Virginia Richmond, will also be the honoree this Wednesday at luncheon at which Mrs. John Dane, will be hostess entertaining at a downtown hotel.

The navy captain disclosed also that a list of questions found in Miss Gee's purse would, if completed and handed back, have given the Kremlin a complete picture `` of our current anti-submarine effort and would have shown what we are doing in research and development for the future ''.

Since she also has considerable technical virtuosity and a feeling for music in the romantic tradition, Miss Xydis gave her listeners a good deal of pleasure.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

Rutherford also appeared briefly as Miss Marple in the spoof Hercule Poirot adventure The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ).

) As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

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.

This myth is also recorded in an 18th-century Swedish folksong called Hammar-Hemtningen ( the taking of the hammer ), where Freyja is called Miss Frojenborg, " den väna solen " ( the fair sun ).

Miss Wood passed her research on to her student Belinda Quirey, and also to Pavlova Company ballerina & choreographer Mary Skeaping ( 1902 – 1984 ).

" A & C Black also note that British surgeons – a designation reserved for those who have obtained membership of the Royal College of Surgeons – are addressed as Mr, Mrs or Miss rather than Dr.

Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ".

Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.

The halftime show also featured the Longhorn Band, along with Judy Mallett, Miss Texas 1973, playing the fiddle, in a tribute to American music titled " A Musical America ".

The cast also included Dana Ivey as Miss Prism, Paxton Whitehead as Rev.

" While most of the blame was attributed to Olivier's acting and direction, Leigh was also criticised, with Bernard Grebanier commenting on the " thin, shopgirl quality of Miss Leigh's voice.

The event was also highlighted by the appearance of four winners of the Miss Indonesia beauty pageant: Nadine Alexandra Dewi, Inda Adeliani, Alessandra K Usman, and Reisa Kartikasari.

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.

This behavior causes Miss Bartlett some consternation, as it appears impolite.

In his pocket-book her name as “ Miss Angelica ” or “ Miss Angel ” appears frequently ; and in 1766 he painted her, a compliment which she returned by her Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Bayes ' document contains elements of conjecture ; for instance, his claim that Turpin was married to a Miss Palmer ( and not Elizabeth Millington ) is almost certainly incorrect, and the date of Turpin's marriage, for which no documentary evidence has been found, appears to be based solely on Bayes ' claim that in 1739 Turpin had married 11 or 12 years earlier.

Miss Simmons also appears in several Elia essays under the name " Alice M ." The essays " Dream Children ," " New Year's Eve ," and several others, speak of the many years that Lamb spent pursuing his love that ultimately failed.

In the Project Gutenburg text's version of I. 1, Lady Sneerwell's accomplice is her cousin Miss Verjuice, not the socially inferior Snake ( who appears only in V. 3 ).

In addition, Mr. Alexander Casey, the Harpers ' neighbour, appears in three episodes, " Driving Miss Crazy " ( 2001 ), " Neighbour Wars " ( 2008 ) and " Mary Christmas " ( 2010 )

Miss Tick appears in The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith.

Gatiss appears frequently in BBC Radio productions, including the science fiction comedy Nebulous and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes story The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith.

At the end, a female character appears called Miss Sinister.

* Miss Bacharach is a nervous, easily excited, and easily fooled receptionist at the Daily Planet who appears in three first season episodes and is mentioned in two others.

By the time of the novel 4. 50 from Paddington the station appears to have closed as Mrs MacGillycuddy on her way to Miss Marple leaves her train at Milchester.

There, catching the portal before it closes at midnight, Kate vanishes into 1876, where Leopold appears resigned to be pragmatic, as Kate and his uncle had advised him, and marry Miss Tree for her family fortune ; but, just as he is about to announce his intention to become engaged to Miss Tree, as he opens his mouth to speak, he sees Kate and announces her name, Kate McKay, as his bride-to-be.

Peter the Painter appears as a character in the 4th episode of the Australian murder mysteries series, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

Arlene Howell had appeared several times on 1957's western series Maverick and was a former Miss USA ; she appears to have retired from the screen after a last appearance as an understandably astonished Sergeant Carter's blind date on Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C .. Richard Long went on to play the lead in the western series The Big Valley ( 1965-69 ) and the sitcom Nanny and the Professor ( 1970-71 ).

The most notable elements that are out of continuity are the fates of Dan the Dyna-Mite ( who in DC continuity became a member of " Old Justice ", a team that fought Young Justice ), Tarantula ( who has appeared in the pages of Nightwing ) and Miss America ( who appears in Freedom Fighters series ).

In the film, Marbles appears as a hearty, tweed-clad Englishwoman with a frail, seemingly senile companion — her ancient " nurse " Miss Withers ( Estelle Winwood )— for whom she is now caring.

Foo-Foo mostly appears as a sidekick to Miss Piggy is most movies and specials.

After crash-landing in a pile of snow and meeting up with her best friends, Maud Moonshine and Enid Nightshade, Ethel Hallow appears and tells Mildred that Miss Cackle wants to see her.

Just then, Miss Hardbroom appears and Miss Mould explains what happened.