Miss Jane Marple

 

MISS JANE MARPLE

Born:  1928

Resides:  Mary St. Mead

Family:  Nephew, Raymond West

Hobbies:  Gossip, Knitting, Observing Human Nature, Mentioning her Nephew.

Physical description:  Slim, soft white hair, pink face, china-blue eyes.

Awards:  Markmanship, fencing and equestrianism.

Holidays:  Bertram’s Hotel, Carribean.

Motto:  Believe the Worst.

 

Books Featuring Miss Marple

• Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
• The Body in the Library (1942)
• The Moving Finger (1943)
• A Murder is Announced (1950)
• They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder with Mirrors (1952)
• A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
• 4.50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! (1957)
• The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, or The Mirror Crack’d (1962)
• A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
• At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)
• Nemesis (1971)
• Sleeping Murder (written around 1940, published 1976)

 

In a word:  Remarkable.

 

Clues Most Christie

Missing keys, fuse box, locked terrace door;

foreign hikers, cookbook, stethoscope, and more;

German matchbox, dental charts and rose-bush make three,

Pairs of gloves, that is, and The Life of Disraeli.

The broken mirror, the missing lamp, my house is such a mess!

Monkey’s paws and burnt script, who will confess?

Voodoo books, the Ace of Spades and a broken lift

A box of poisoned chocolates, oh my, what a gift!

A pocketful of rye you say?  And clothes pin on the nose,

Look underneath the bed, a trunk full of clothes!

A pair of size-five shoes, sitting on the shelf,

Ma foi!  Mon Dieu, mon ami.  Murder arranges itself.

-Stephanie McCarthy, Love is Murder