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AGATHA CHRISTIE MISS MARPLE BOOKS SERIES

Inspector Lestrade: Inspector Slack-competent, but obnoxiously efficient and unimaginative-sometimes serves this role in the Marple books.Miss Marple is the only one who thinks he's innocent, because he reminds her of an uncle who was also a Stoic. The victim's husband doesn't grieve publicly because he believes in the virtue of Stoicism, causing everyone in the village to believe him guilty. Incriminating Indifference: Subverted in "Tape-Measure Murder".Have a Gay Old Time: Miss Marple getting described as an "old pussy".Gossipy Hens: Several appear over the course of the series, including, by her own admission, Miss Marple herself.Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Miss Marple can't bring herself to say that a killer hid in the restroom, referring to it as a confined space instead.

Flower Motifs: Miss Marple happens to know the Victorian language of flowers thanks to a 'sentimental' governess, which comes in handy in at least one short story.First-Person Peripheral Narrator: The novels which were narrated from a first-person perspective tended to use this trope - understandably, since little old ladies, no matter how much investigating they do, don't actually tend to spend a lot of time running around crime scenes.Expy: Miss Marple's initial characterisation owed quite a bit to Caroline Sheppard of the Hercule Poirot novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Christie enjoyed her so much she revived the type as the star part.While some of the character's overtly Victorian attitudes would persist into later stories, the period dress is never referred to again. Early Installment Weirdness: In her debut in "The Tuesday Night Club", Miss Marple is presented as a stately, almost ostentatiously Victorian figure, wearing an elaborate black silk dress "very much nipped in at the waist", black lace gloves and a lace scarf over her piled-up hair.

AGATHA CHRISTIE MISS MARPLE BOOKS SERIES

Like Poirot, she is aged somewhat throughout her series (in both The Mirror Crack'd and Nemesis it becomes a significant issue) but not in anything close to real time.

Comic-Book Time: Miss Marple, originally presented as a subversion of the "Victorian Aunt" stereotype in 1920s fiction, lives on into the 1970s and is described as having had a Victorian Aunt of her own in At Bertram's Hotel (published 1965).

Also sometimes the location of the mystery.

Close-Knit Community: Saint Mary Mead.

Character Overlap: The Marple stories are connected to the Hercule Poirot stories and the Tommy and Tuppence stories (and, via Poirot, to the Quin and Satterthwaite stories and several other standalone novels) through shared supporting characters.

It might be worth mentioning that being addressed as "Mrs Marple" is the nearest thing she has to a Berserk Button (an icy glance and a "tsk"). In A Caribbean Mystery, she mentions a young man she dated in her youth as an illustrative example, so she did have some romantic history, but apparently none of it developed into anything serious.

Celibate Hero: Miss Marple, who has never been married, and whose love life, past or present, is rarely ever discussed.

Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end." "One of my names," she said, "is Nemesis."

Six stories from Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (published posthumously in 1979).

"Greenshaw's Folly" from The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées (published in 1960).

All thirteen stories from The Thirteen Problems (1932).

Sleeping Murder (written in 1940, published posthumously in 1976).

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962).