Anne Hart (Canadian author) Anne Hart (Canadian author) Anne Hart (née Hill), OC (born October 7, 1935) is a Canadian author specialising in biographies. She is best known for "The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple", her biography of the Agatha Christie character, and is a Member of the Order of Canada. Ms. Hart received an arts degree from Dalhousie University and a library science degree from McGill University. She then started work with Newfoundland's Memorial University library in 1969 and made it her career until retirement in 1997. Notable positions during her time at Memorial University included head of the Centre for
A Caribbean Mystery Miss Marple) worked at a cosmetic company. After lukewarm reviews of her two previous novels, Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) felt that the writer was back on form in his review in "The Guardian"'s issue of 11 December 1964: "Mrs Agatha Christie has done it again. In "A Caribbean Mystery" she tells the reader explicitly what is going to happen; and yet when it does, nine out of ten will be taken completely by surprise – as I was. How "does" she do it? For the rest, it is Miss Marple this time who is in charge of the story;