Agatha Christie--Miss Marple


                                                                                                        Updated 9 Feb 2024

 Miss Jane Marple an elderly, white-haired spinster living quietly in the placid English village of St. Mary Meade, makes her debut in 1928 in the short story "The Tuesday Night Club" in which a group of six people take turns telling stories of mysterious events which only the story teller knows the outcome.  Miss Marple surprisingly is the best of the lot of them, coming up with the correct solution every time.

Miss Marple herself does not find this odd because she believes that human nature is pretty much the same everywhere and that people tend to behave in predictable patterns.  She uses everyday, commonplace events from village life to discern these patterns of human behavior and solve the mysteries.  

We learn more about Miss Marple and the village of St. Mary Meade and its inhabitants in Murder At The Vicarage when she helps the police identify the perpetrator of the murder of Colonel Protheroe.  

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