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AGATHA CHRISTIES MARPLE EB
About this book
A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple.
Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction.
In Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness,'Agathologist' Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead's most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple's appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond.
Drawing on a range of material, some of which is newly discovered and previously unpublished, this book explores everything about Miss Marple, from her origins in a series of short stories penned by Christie, to the recent bestselling HarperCollins collection Marple: Twelve New Stories.
This accessible, entertaining and illustrated guide to the world of Miss Marple pieces together the evidence in order to tell you everything you need to know about the world's favourite female detective.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- HalfTitle
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Lucy Foley
- Introduction: Meet Miss Marple
- Chapter One: Miss Marple’s Early Mysteries (1927–38)
- The Mysteries of ‘The Tuesday Night Club’
- The Murder at the Vicarage
- The Thirteen Problems
- ‘Miss Marple Tells a Story’
- Chapter Two: The 1940s
- The Body in the Library
- The Moving Finger
- Murder at the Vicarage (Play)
- Chapter Three: The 1950s
- A Murder is Announced
- They Do It with Mirrors
- A Pocket Full of Rye
- Miss Marple on Radio and Television in the 1950s
- 4.50 from Paddington
- Chapter Four: The 1960s
- ‘Greenshaw’s Folly’
- Murder She Said
- The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
- Murder at the Gallop
- Murder Most Foul
- A Caribbean Mystery
- Murder Ahoy
- At Bertram’s Hotel
- Chapter Five: The 1970s
- Nemesis
- Sleeping Murder
- A Murder is Announced (Play)
- Miss Marple’s Final Cases
- Chapter Six: The 1980s and 1990s
- The Mirror Crack’d (Film)
- Helen Hayes as Miss Marple
- Joan Hickson in Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple
- June Whitfield as Miss Marple
- Chapter Seven: The Twenty-First Century
- Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie in Agatha Christie’s Marple
- Reinventing Miss Marple
- Marple: Twelve New Stories
- Epilogue: Miss Marple’s Next Cases
- Key Names
- Selected Bibliography
- Endnotes
- Also By
- A Note from the Author
- Acknowledgements
- About Publisher
- Index