Agatha Christie a long-running character in Christie's works, appearing in 33 novels and 54 short stories. Miss Jane Marple, introduced in the short-story collection "The Thirteen Problems" in 1927, was based on Christie's grandmother and her "Ealing cronies". Both Jane and Gran "always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and were, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right." Marple appeared in 12 novels and 20 stories. During the Second World War, Christie wrote two novels, "Curtain" and "Sleeping Murder", intended as the last cases of these two great detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Both books were sealed in a bank
Agatha Christie's Marple due to the involvement of War-period China. In Norway, the series has been airing on state broadcaster NRK1 as "Miss Marple." In Sweden, "Marple" airs on TV4, the biggest commercial TV station. In Poland, the series airs on Ale Kino+. In the Czech Republic it is broadcast under the name "Slečna Marplová," the Czech for "Miss Marple." In Brazil, the series airs on HBO Brasil. The show has sparked controversy with some viewers for its adaptations of the novels. The first series of "Marple" was released in March 2005 in the UK, followed by the second series in July 2006.