Miss Marple

Who Created Miss Marple?

Several years ago, I was writing entries for an encyclopedia—and the project lost its funding. So, this meant that I could use the entries I wrote in another way. One of them was titled “Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Series” and, while I don’t claim to have a super high traffic website, after I posted it on my blog, it has consistently gotten the most keyword traffic. In fact, I have fifty-nine keywords on the subject of Miss Marple in Google’s top 100. So, I thought I’d address answers to questions posted in those keywords. Who Created Miss Marple? The creator

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Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Series

Miss Jane Marple appears in 12 books and 20 short stories over a period of about 50 years. I was invited to write an encyclopedia entry on Agatha Christie’s amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple — and, as a huge fan, I was thrilled. And . . . the encyclopedia project got canceled. So, I thought I would share what I wrote here, with sub-headlines added. Who is Jane Marple? Jane Marple is a fictional character created by English mystery novelist Agatha Christie. She appears in twelve books and twenty short stories, starting in approximately 1926 and lasting through 1976; the

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