Miss Marple Morton adapted the novel for the stage, he replaced the character of Caroline with a young girl. This change saddened Christie and she determined to give old maids a voice: Miss Marple was born. Christie may have taken the name from Marple railway station, through which she passed, or from Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall. The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, "The Murder at the Vicarage", is markedly different from how she appears in later books. This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially
A Caribbean Mystery (film) viewers. Hayes reprised her role as Marple in "Murder with Mirrors" (1985). The film was seen on TV by writer Richard Levinson who noted its ratings success. He thought of doing a regular mystery show about a Marple-like detective, who was a mystery writer like Agatha Christie. This led to "Murder, She Wrote". A Caribbean Mystery (film) A Caribbean Mystery is a 1983 American made-for-television mystery film based on the Agatha Christie novel "A Caribbean Mystery" and starring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple. Stan Margulies had the rights to eight Christie books. He made a TV movie of Christie's "Murder