He was called to World War I and Miss Marple made him promise not to have a divorce. She reveals that she once loved a married man who wanted to leave his wife for her.
In her later years, Miss Marple has a live-in companion named Cherry Baker.ĭespite never having been married, The Murder at the Vicarage sheds light on a young Miss Marple.
Raymond tends to be overconfident in himself and underestimates Miss Marple's mental powers. His wife Joan (initially called Joyce), a modern artist, was introduced in 1933 in The Thirteen Problems. Vicarage introduced Miss Marple's nephew, the "well-known author" Raymond West. Miss Marple never married and has no close living relatives. In later books she becomes more modern and a kinder person. This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman. The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she would appear in later books. The name Miss Marple was derived from the name of the railway station in Marple, on the Manchester to Sheffield Hope Valley line, at which Agatha Christie was once delayed long enough to have actually noticed the sign. In the detective story tradition, she often embarrasses the local "professional" police by solving mysteries that have them stumped. Miss Marple sometimes comes across as confused or "fluffy", but when it comes to solving mysteries, she has a sharp logical mind. She looks like an ordinary old lady, dressed neatly in tweed and is frequently seen knitting or pulling weeds in her garden. Miss Jane Marple is an elderly woman who lives in the little English village of St.
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