Miss Marple at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline "Carrie" Louise Serrocold. While Miss Marple is described as 'an old lady' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in "At Bertram's Hotel", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was fourteen and almost sixty years have passed since then. Excluding "Sleeping Murder", 41 years passed between the first and last-written novels, and many characters grow and age. An example would be the Vicar's nephew: in "The Murder at the Vicarage", the Reverend Clement's nephew Dennis is a teenager; in "The Mirror Crack'd
Miss America (book) previous record for the fastest selling book in one day, previously being "Sex" by Madonna in 1992. A week after its release, "Miss America" hit the top spot on the "New York Times" Best Seller list, knocking off "My American Journey" by Colin Powell. In total, the book was listed on the list for more than four months, a period of 16 weeks in total. The book sold more than nine copies for every one copy of the next best-selling book on the list. By the end of 1995, "Miss America" had sold 1,398,880 hardcover copies, making it the third