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Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility."
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Miss Jane Marple is the one of the two main protagonists of Agatha Christie's detective fiction works, alongside Hercule Poirot. She is also the main protagonist of the titular Miss Marple series and its adaptations, appearing in 12 novels and 24 short stories in all.
Her first short story appearance is "The Tuesday Night Club" in 1927, which would be included in 1932 short story collection The Thirteen Problems, and first made her novel debut in the 1930 novel The Murder at the Vicarage.
She had been portrayed by various actresses, including the late Dame Gracie Fields, the late Dame Margaret Rutherford, Dame Angela Lansbury, the late Dulcie Gray, the late Helen Hayes, Ita Ever, the late Joan Hickson, the late Geraldine McEwan, the late Dame June Whitfield and Julia McKenzie. Her younger self had been portrayed by Isabella Parriss and Julie Cox.
Overview[]
Miss Jane Marple is a little old spinster lady living in the English village of St. Mary Mead, with an occasional tendency to stumble into murder mysteries. Her gently ultra-conventional exterior hides a keen perception and wide-ranging understanding of human nature from which she gains insight that lets her proceed where the official detectives are baffled.
The kicker is that this wisdom is derived entirely from her observation of one village's life; confronted with a horrific murder, she invariably can draw the 'village parallel' between the suspects' behaviour and some random schoolboy prank or irregularity with the church funds.
