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 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.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

According to Gow, Housman could never remember his students ' names, maintaining that " had he burdened his memory by the distinction between Miss Jones and Miss Robinson, he might have forgotten that between the second and fourth declension.

In April 1772, when James Northcote saw her Miss Notable in Cibber's The Lady's Last Stake, he remarked to his brother " I never saw a part done so excellent in all my life, for in her acting she has all the simplicity of nature and not the least tincture of the theatrical ".

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

The colleague died, the box was never collected, Mr. Gabb died and his executrix Miss Revees asked Croker to ask the museum if they could identify them.

The impasse is broken by the return of Miss Prism, whom Lady Bracknell recognises as the person who, twenty-eight years earlier, as a family nursemaid, had taken a baby boy for a walk in a perambulator ( baby carriage ) and never returned.

Torn between Mackenzie and the mother of his daughter, Thorvaldsen never succeeded in making Miss Caspers his wife.

This is the first appearance of Oswald's cat love interest, replacing Oswald's former love interest Miss Cottontail who would never appear again in the Disney shorts.

" Tiny Tim: " I don't know, Miss Goldie, I've never been out with one.

** After Manning left to attend the University of Mississippi ( Ole Miss ), he never lived in Drew again.

However, Stevens is never able to acknowledge the complexity of feeling he possesses for Miss Kenton, insisting only that they shared an ' excellent professional relationship '.

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

While Dillon and Miss Kitty clearly had a close personal relationship, the two never married.

During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

" It ill becomes a man who never tried a law suit in his life, but who occupied the high position of United States attorney general and who was responsible for using 30, 000 troops and spent approximately six million dollars to put one unqualified student in Ole Miss to return to the scene of this crime and discuss any phase of this infamous affair.

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.

The BBC has used the term " Fleming's Miss Moneypenny " when referring to Jean Frampton, who typed out the manuscripts for Fleming's works and made plot suggestions to him, even though the two never met.

The title precedes the holder's rank or title ( e. g. " Cllr Dr John Smith " or " Cllr Sir James Smith ) and for women only it precedes their title of marital status ( e. g. " Cllr Mrs Joan Smith "; rarely " Miss " but never " Ms ").

Other characters, including Sam's secretary Miss Brown, Dinah's psychotherapist, and a listener in the hat shop — likely one of Dinah's female friends — are spoken to in certain scenes but never seen or heard.

* Miss Boathook: The colonel's secretary, only referred to by the colonel and never seen ( though sometimes heard ).

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.

Although Royal was never as beautiful as her younger sister, she did not share in Augusta's primary flaw: painful shyness, though Royal did suffer from a stammer that her attendant Miss Mary Dacres tried to help her young charge overcome.

Oxnard, Calif., will be the home of the Rev. Robert D. Howard and his bride, the former Miss Judith Ellen Gay, who were married Saturday at the Munger Place Methodist Church.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

Miss Kizzie had been right snippy ever since they were married, though you'd have thought a namesake would have brought her round.

Williams married Dolores Wettach, a former Miss Vermont and Vogue model, in 1968.

The married couple constantly attempts to reconcile with Miss Crawley, and she relents a little, but she will only see her nephew and refuses to change her will.

He married his second wife, Nancy Janice Moore ( born 1946 ), Miss South Carolina of 1965, on December 22, 1968.

On September 30, 2000, Sampras married American actress and former Miss Teen USA, Bridgette Wilson.

Safire pointed out that it would be equally incorrect to call her " Miss Ferraro " ( as she was married ), or " Mrs. Ferraro " ( as her husband was not " Mr. Ferraro ")— and that calling her " Mrs. Zaccaro " would confuse the reader.

Having lived under cover in various parts of the Middle East and Europe, in 1978 he married Georgina Rizk, a Lebanese celebrity who had been Miss Universe seven years earlier in 1971.

On 4 January 1897 he married Miss Kate Maitland Crosthwaite.

Azharuddin married former Miss India turned actress Sangeeta Bijlani.

During her time in the Philippines, Torres learned to speak Tagalog, the main language of the country and she had a four-year relationship with Filipino actor Aga Muhlach, who is now married to Charlene Gonzalez, Miss Universe 1994 top 6 finalist.

The film has a happy Hollywood ending for Cher: Mr. Hall and Miss Geist get married ; her friendships with Tai and Dionne are reaffirmed ; Tai and Travis are in love ; and, in Josh's arms, she too has now finally found love.

Tiny Tim was later married on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to Victoria Budinger, who was known as Miss Vicki.

* Marjorie Edmondson, 1956 Miss Montana who was disqualified due to her being married.

Miss Abigail J. Scott, best known by her married name as the suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, was the first teacher.

The novel begins with Stevens receiving a letter from a former colleague, Miss Kenton, describing her married life, which he believes hints at an unhappy marriage.

Miss Kenton, it later emerges, has been married for over 20 years and therefore is no longer Miss Kenton but has become Mrs Benn.

* Miss Kenton – housekeeper at Darlington Hall, afterwards married as Mrs Benn

In July 1846, Liddell married Miss Lorina Reeve ( d. 1910 ), with whom he had several children, including Alice Liddell of Lewis Carroll fame.

Smith married former Miss Virginia USA beauty queen Patricia Southall on April 22, 2000.

After returning to England in the Fall of 1772 he married Miss Venables.