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
George Marple he was captain in 1907. Marple was a partner in the scrap metal business of Marple and Gillott Ltd, Sheffield, which broke up railway engines. He was involved in the LLoyd George cash for honours affair having been invited to contribute £5000 for a knighthood. In 1919 Marple applied for a patent for a carburettor design with James Frederick Bennett. In 1921 he donated a cup as the Marple Trophy for a brass band contest Marple died in Ecclesall, Sheffield at the age of 63. He married Florence Madoline Gillott in 1893. George Marple "Not to be confused with George