Anne Hart (Canadian author) Newfoundland Studies and Library Research Professor. Ms. Hart was one of the 2009 Winterset Board of Directors. Ms. Hart's biographies of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot were written with the full endorsement of Agatha Christie Limited. CBC Radio "Ideas" documentary: "Into Unknown Labrador: The Mina Hubbard Story", 1998-05-28. This lecture was also delivered by Ms. Hart to The Newfoundland Historical Society on January 27, 2000. 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
Agatha Christie However, unlike Conan Doyle, Christie resisted the temptation to kill her detective off while he was still popular. She saw herself as an entertainer whose job was to produce what the public liked, and the public liked Poirot. She did marry off Poirot's companion Captain Hastings in an attempt to trim her cast commitments. In contrast, Christie was fond of Miss Marple. However, the Belgian detective's titles outnumber the Marple titles more than two to one. This is largely because Christie wrote numerous Poirot novels early in her career, while "The Murder at the Vicarage" remained the sole Marple novel