Posts Tagged: Murder at the Vicarage

   
Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple Miss Marple rivals Hercule Poirot as Agatha Christie’s most famous fictional detective.  An elderly spinster living in a tiny village in England called St. Mary’s Mead, Jane Marple’s primary occupations are knitting, trading gossip, and armchair detection.  She first appeared in a 1927 short story, “The Tuesday Night Club.”  Her…