Miss Marple Morton adapted the novel for the stage, he replaced the character of Caroline with a young girl. This change saddened Christie and she determined to give old maids a voice: Miss Marple was born. Christie may have taken the name from Marple railway station, through which she passed, or from Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall. The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, "The Murder at the Vicarage", is markedly different from how she appears in later books. This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially
Tommy and Tuppence of the Granada television series "Marple" even though Christie did not write Miss Marple into the original story. In this version, Tommy and Tuppence were played by Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi respectively, but, unlike in the book, Miss Marple and Tuppence play the detective roles while Tommy is away on intelligence (MI6) business. BBC television began broadcasting two adaptations, comprising six episodes in 2015. Set in the 1950s and titled "Partners in Crime", it starred David Walliams as Tommy and Jessica Raine as Tuppence. Tommy and Tuppence Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work