![]() ![]() ("Human nature is much the same everywhere, I find.") This makes her the Trope Codifier for Little Old Lady Investigates. 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. ![]() 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. 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. In all, she appeared in 12 novels and 24 short stories. She made her first appearance in the short story " The Tuesday Night Club" in 1927, and first featured in a novel in 1930, with The Murder at the Vicarage. She was second to Poirot both chronologically, making her debut seven years after him, and in the affections of the public, but it is reported that of the two of them Christie herself much preferred Miss Marple. Miss Marple is, after Hercule Poirot, the second of Agatha Christie's big two detective characters. ![]()
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