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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.

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The Captain takes a large Browning Automatic Rifle ( BAR ), orders the patrol to return to the ship with Miss Eckert, and remains behind to provide covering fire.
The next day, Lucy embarks on a tour of Florence with another guest, Miss Eleanor Lavish, a novelist who shows Lucy the back streets of Florence, takes her Baedeker guidebook and subsequently loses her in Santa Croce, where Lucy meets the Emersons again.
The racism and prejudice that permeated American society during the time period in which the story takes place is explored in the film, especially when Hoke is questioned by a pair of Alabama highway patrolmen who make out-of-earshot racist comments about Miss Daisy being Jewish and Hoke being black.
Rather than hire a new maid, Miss Daisy takes it upon herself to care for her house and cook her meals.
Boolie and Hoke meet at Miss Daisy's house one final time before the new owner takes possession, and then drive to the retirement home to visit Miss Daisy, who is now 97.
If the winner, for any reason, cannot fulfill her duties as Miss Universe, the 1st runner-up takes over.
* Fredda Gibson takes her professional name, " Georgia Gibbs ", and began appearing on the popular Camel Caravan radio program, hosted by Jimmy Durante and Gary Moore ( It was Moore who bestowed the famous nickname " Her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs " upon her.
Her first, The Comforters ( 1957 ), concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel ; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future to see the various fates that befall its characters.
A farcical conversation takes place in a coffee house with Tom speaking about Nancy Miller whereas the father presumes he is talking about Miss Harris, and Tom saying he is already married.
Miss Harridan now takes a job as a crossing guard, and her former assistant, Jenny, joins Daddy Day Care at the new facility.
In the musical Yume Senshi-Ai-Eien ni ... and its revision, Yume Senshi-Ai-Eien ni ... Saturn Fukkatsu Hen !, Hotaru takes the alias of " Miss Dream " while under the control of the Dead Moon Circus, who beat and ridicule her.
In Second Form at St. Clare's, Alison takes a fancy to the drama mistress, Miss Quentin.
The donut shop holdup takes place several blocks east of the club, which is the donut shop on Sherman Way called Miss Donuts, which used to be a Winchell's Donuts ; the scene where Dirk Diggler prostitutes himself in a pickup truck was filmed in the Bank of America parking lot across the street from the donut shop.
Borehamwood has a large shopping area called Borehamwood Shopping Park, featuring large stores such as Marks & Spencer Simply Food, Next, Outfit-which includes Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans and Miss Selfridge, WH Smith, Boots, and more recently JD Sports, which takes place of JJB Sports
* Jane Kean as Miss Abbey Taylor, a cruel schoolteacher, who reluctantly takes Pete as a student
In late summer, the Grape Festival takes place, hosting events such as the Miss Grape contest and a grape-eating competition.
The Swede eventually takes over his father's glove factory, Newark Maid, and marries Dawn Dwyer, an Irish-American Miss New Jersey 1949 winner ( the actual winner that year was Betty Jane Crowley ).
" Jon Pareles of The New York Times notes Control takes obvious influence from Prince, describing " he album's pacing, its clipped vocal lines — even the spoken introduction that starts things off " as pure Minneapolis sound ; he adds " ut where the Prince style is usually connected with heavy-breathing come-ons, Miss Jackson is cheerfully standoffish.
Miss Level comes along on a broomstick and takes Tiffany to her cottage in the mountains.
Jimmy later takes her and Miss Dorothy on an outing to Long Island, where they meet eccentric widow Muzzy Van Hossmere ( Carol Channing ).
On landing she is confronted by Miss Hardbroom, who takes Mildred and Einstein inside and, after hearing part of the incidents from Mildred, sets an interview with Mildred and Ethel the next morning.
Every year, the Miss Lebanon Pageant takes on a new format with a new number of contestants.
He first speaks to the cowardly mother and tells her to warn her husband that he will press charges if he abuses their child again, and when the father takes no notice, Kimble assaults him in front of some students, finally winning Miss Schlowski's favor.
He rapes Temple with a corncob and then takes her to Memphis and keeps her in a room at Miss Reba's brothel.

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