If you want to take me back in time with only one sensory stimulus, you could leave the madeleines in the cake tin. All you need to do is play the opening trills of the theme tune to the BBC's Miss ...

A woman's body has been found in the library. She's been strangled. "It brings to mind little Tommy Timpson and Miss Martin, our new schoolmistress," says Miss Marple, bafflingly, in the opening ...

CBS has put in development Marple, a drama series featuring a version of Agatha Christie’s iconic character. Inspired by Christie’s Miss Marple 12 novels and 20 short stories, the project will be ...

Conversation at the St Mary Mead vicarage tea party may never be the same again. Twenty years after Joan Hickson packed away her knitting for the final time, ITV yesterday unveiled a new "modern" Miss ...

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To match the performances of Joan Hickson as Miss Marple would probably be impossible. Hickson, who filled the role on television from 1984 until 1992, was almost eerily well suited to it, the perfect ...

She is genteel, polite and reassuringly old-fashioned - but with a razor-sharp mind capable of solving the most puzzling crime. Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's much-loved creation, has been portrayed ...