Miss Marple Miss Marple Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. An elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective, she is one of the most loved and famous of Christie's characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen. Her first appearance was in a short story published in "The Royal Magazine" in December 1927, "The Tuesday Night Club", which later became the first chapter of "The Thirteen Problems" (1932). Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in "The Murder at the Vicarage"
Juliette Mole 1983, she played Bella in the Avon Touring Theatre Company's first production of Vince Foxall's "Brittle Glory", a reworking of "Richard II". Mole's first credited screen role was in the first episode of the television drama "The Fourth Arm" (1983), in which she played a WAAF. She went on to appear in "Screen Two", the Miss Marple film "4.50 from Paddington" (1987), with Joan Hickson as Marple, in "Agatha Christie's Poirot" with David Suchet, "Rumpole of the Bailey", and "Absolutely Fabulous". In "The Chief", she played Marie-Pierre Arnoux from 1993 to 1994. In the 1990s, she lived on a houseboat