Miss Marple's Final Cases by Agatha Christie

However, there is no definite source from where the name of Miss Marple has been derived. When author Christie came to know about this change, she was very much saddened and decided to create Miss Marple’s character. When one of the novels featuring Caroline Sheppard was adapted as a stage show by Michael Morton, he decided to replace Caroline Sheppard with a young girl. Some of the materials to create the character have also been taken by author Christie from her other creations, like the spinster Caroline Sheppard. She had met these old ladies in numerous villages where she had gone to stay when she was a small girl.

According to her, Miss Marple is a type of old lady, who would have been like the Ealing cronies of her step grandmother. Miss Marple’s character is inspired from the step grandmother and Aunt Margaret West of author Christie, as well as her cronies.īut, Agatha Christie has attributed the character’s inspiration to many other sources. As part of a full length novel, Miss Marple was first depicted in ‘The Murder at the Vicarage’ in 1930. The first appearance of Miss Marple was in a short story published in 1927, titled ‘The Tuesday Night Club’. Along with the other famous characters of Agatha Christie, she is also very popular and has been cast on screen for numerous times. Throughout the crime fiction series, Miss Marple is shown as acting as a consulting amateur detective. Her real name is Jane Marple, but people usually refer her by her popular name ‘Miss Marple’. Author Christie has described Miss Marple as an elderly spinster living in a village called St. The character of Miss Marple also appears in 20 other short stories written by Agatha Christie. This series is comprised of a total of 14 books and features the chief protagonist in the form of a fictional character named Miss Marple. The Miss Marple series is a series of crime fiction and mystery novels written by the world famous English author named Agatha Christie.

Miss Marple's Final Cases by Agatha Christie