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 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.

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.

Delighted, Geoffrey and Hope ask Miss Tweed how she solves her cases.

Miss Marple apparently solves the crime by divine guidance, for there is very little in the way of clues or logical deduction.

On Dietrich's role, he characterized, " It's difficult to reconcile Miss Dietrich's Frenchy, the cabaret girl of the Bloody Gulch Saloon, with the posed and posturing Dietrich we last saw in Mr. Lubitsch's ' Angel '.

One critic wrote, " Miss Crawford sings appealingly and dances thrillingly as usual ; her voice is alluring and her dramatic efforts in the difficult role she portrays are at all times convincing.

The organization makes continual efforts to expand the pageant, but the participation of some countries such as Algeria has proven difficult due to cultural barriers to the swimsuit competition, while others such as Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Armenia and Nepal have balked at sending representatives due to the cost ( in fact, of all the major international pageants, the franchise fee for Miss Universe is the most expensive ).

The problem here is that both Miss Powell and you will reach a point where it might be difficult to decide which is reality and which is nightmare, a problem uncommon perhaps but rather peculiar to the Twilight Zone.

The director Henry Whitfield ( Leo G. Carroll ) is a " difficult " director modeled on Alfred Hitchcock, and his assistant Miss March ( Kathleen Freeman ) is modeled on Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville.

Boss Finley wants to run Chance out of town again, but it will be a little more difficult this time if only because of the notoriety of Miss Del Lago.

He wrote, " Unfortunately there is no excitement whatsoever in what Charles Jarrott, the director, and John Hale, the author of the original screenplay, have put together ... Mary, Queen of Scots intends, I assume, to illuminate history ... yet all it's really doing is touching bases, like a dull, dutiful student ... Because both Miss Redgrave and Miss Jackson possess identifiable intelligence, film is not as difficult to sit through as some bad movies I can think of.

is not Miss Agatha Christie's best is difficult while the first fine anxious rapture of her latest story is still troubling the mind.

Harpers Weekly wrote: " It is difficult to see just who is going to prevent Miss Adams from becoming the leading exponent of light comedy in America.

Mirza wanted to complete her graduation in Arts by correspondence, but decided to postpone it as it was becoming difficult to juggle between the Miss Asia Pacific competition, modeling assignments, travelling and training.

After summarising the plot, the Mr. Disher concluded: " Miss Christie casts the shadow of guilt upon first one and then another with such casual ease that it is difficult for the reader not to be led by the nose.

He admits that he understands how difficult it can be for the parents to teach their kids about sex, but tells them that it is worth it rather than letting the children being taught by people with no experience of sex ( Mr Mackey ), a bad view of it ( Miss Choksondik ) or even a complete pervert ( Garrison, who takes offense for being described this way ).

There is no mention of his being cold blooded ( his crimes are committed solely for love, not money ) as there is in the earlier film version ; and Miss Marple does not comment, as she does in the novel, that if there is one person who ought to be hanged it is Quimper.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

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.

Years ago when I asked her to put me in Social Security, so's I wouldn't have to be working now, Miss Julia threatened to fire me -- all because it would mean a few more dollars a year to her ''.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

The effects of ageing are seen on Miss Marple, such as needing a vacation after illness in A Caribbean Mystery or finding in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side that because of poor eyesight she can no longer knit.

The others eventually decide they are content to stay: Miss Brinklow, to teach the people a sense of sin ; Barnard, because he is really Chalmers Bryant ( wanted by the police for stock fraud ) and because he is keen to develop the gold-mines in the valley ; Conway, because the contemplative scholarly life suits him.

Carl was recruited to be a member of the Lake County Fourth Grade Marching Band, and because of the Perkins's limited finances, was given a new white shirt, cotton pants, white band cap and red cape by Miss Lee McCutcheon, who was in charge of the band.

Without letting Lucy speak, Miss Bartlett refuses the offer, looking down on the Emersons because of their unconventional behaviour and thinking it would place her under an " unseemly obligation " towards them.

After this, Lucy decides to avoid George, partly because she is confused by her feelings and partly to keep her cousin happy — Miss Bartlett is wary of the eccentric Emersons, particularly after a comment made by another clergyman, Mr. Eager, that Mr. Emerson " murdered his wife in the sight of God.

Lucy promises Miss Bartlett that she will not tell her mother of the " insult " George has paid her because Miss Bartlett fears she will be blamed.

In 1948, after a driving mishap where her automobile is wrecked, Miss Daisy ’ s son, Boolie ( Dan Aykroyd ), tells her she will have to get a chauffeur because no insurance company will cover her.

* Miss Turkey, Azra Akın from Almelo, won the Miss World competition which had been moved from Nigeria to London because of religious violence.

In Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Herbert Pocket describes Estella Havisham as a Tartar because she was " hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex.

Rosamund Gray is a story of a young man named Allen Clare who loves Rosamund Gray but their relationship comes to nothing because of the sudden death of Miss Gray.

* Kayser-Roth ( a clothing company which happened to own the Miss Universe pageant because it had bought Pacific Mills, which had invented the pageant to sell its Catalina Swimwear brand )

Howl is able to stop the demon but fails because Miss Angorian took hold of Calcifer and tried to squeeze Howl's heart out of him.

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.