Agatha Christie’s Marple

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Anne Hart. Agatha Christie’s Marple

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

1 ST MARY MEAD

2 MISS MARPLE’S EARLIER LIFE

3 MISS MARPLE’S CAREER BEGINS

4 THE 1930s

5 POSTWAR EVENTS

6 THE FOUR LAST CASES

7 THE ESSENTIAL MISS MARPLE

8 A VISIT TO MISS MARPLE

9 MISS MARPLE AT HOME

10 MISS MARPLE AT LARGE

11 ‘MY NEPHEW, THE AUTHOR’ AND OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS

12 LITTLE MAIDS ALL IN A ROW

13 MISS MARPLE AS SLEUTH

A MISS MARPLE BIBLIOGRAPHY

MISS MARPLE SHORT STORIES

MISS MARPLE ON STAGE, FILM, TV AND RADIO

STAGE PLAYS

FILM AND TELEVISION

FILM AND TV IN OTHER LANGUAGES

RADIO

AUDIO

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For a very dear aunt,

Anita Elliott Baird,

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Over the years Miss Marple reminisced about several different bank managers and their families. There was Mr Hodgson, who ‘went on a cruise and married a woman young enough to be his daughter. No idea of where she came from.’ There was Mr Eade, ‘a very conservative man – but perhaps a little too fond of money.’ Young Thomas Eade, his son, turned out to be a bit of a black sheep and ended up in the West Indies. ‘He came home when his father died and inherited quite a lot of money. So nice for him.’ And there was Mr Emmett, who had married beneath him with the unfortunate result that his wife ‘was in a position of great loneliness since she could not, of course, associate with the wives of the trades people.’

Miss Marple no doubt produced this particular ‘of course’ with her head ‘a little on one side looking like an amiable cockatoo,’ for there it was, the undeniable fact that St Mary Mead was divided into two worlds, with an overall consensus that things went much more comfortably if everyone stuck to the one in which the Good Lord had caused them to be born. Which brings us to that section of the village map marked ‘Shops and Small Houses’ and the people who lived and worked in them.

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