Agatha Christie's Marple was voiced by Herbert Lom (who also made an on-screen appearance as Mr Dufosse in "The Murder at the Vicarage") in "Nemesis" and played by Antony Sher in "A Caribbean Mystery". The series also featured real-life characters: Winston Churchill appeared in "The Sittaford Mystery", Noël Coward in "", Louis Armstrong in "At Bertram's Hotel", and Ian Fleming and James Bond in "A Caribbean Mystery". Christie wrote twelve novels about Miss Marple, all of which have been adapted for the series. They are: In addition, a short story featuring Miss Marple, "The Blue Geranium," was adapted into a full-length episode. Three
The Murder at the Vicarage stories would later appear in book form in "The Thirteen Problems" in 1932. In St. Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Lucius Protheroe. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar's study, and two different people confess to the crime, it is time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her detecting abilities. According to Miss Marple, there are seven suspects, including the Vicar himself. After some juggling of clues and events, Miss Marple, using her excellent