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Miss Marple

fictional character
Also known as: Miss Jane Marple
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Miss Marple, fictional character, an English detective who is featured in a series of more than 15 detective novels by English mystery novelist Agatha Christie. Miss Marple (as she is always called in the narration) is an elderly amateur sleuth who has always lived in St. Mary Mead, a snug English village. A natural busybody, she is skilled at problem solving and has an unsentimental understanding of human nature. Murder at the Vicarage (1930) was...

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