Miss Marple (TV series) In addition to Miss Marple, there are two semi-regular characters in the series. The first is Inspector (later Superintendent) Slack, played by David Horovitch; the second is Constable (later Sergeant) Lake, played by Ian Brimble. Slack and Lake appear in five episodes: "The Body in the Library", "The Murder at the Vicarage", "4.50 From Paddington", "They Do It with Mirrors" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". They are the official detectives and both (particularly Slack) originally dislike and are exasperated by Miss Marple, her interference and her methods, but they eventually come to respect (and indeed, in the
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