St. Mary Mead St. Mary Mead St. Mary Mead was the fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel "The Mystery of the Blue Train". In that novel, St. Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book in 1930, when it was the setting for the first Marple novel, "The Murder at the Vicarage". Miss Marple's
Miss America (book) blonde, brunette and red hair. A selection of color photographs are also included that did not appear in the first edition. Stern biographer Luigi Lucaire reported that "Miss America" sold six printings within 12 hours of its release. The Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue in New York City opened at 6:30am in the morning of the book's release, with over 250 people in line. By the end of the first day, "Miss America" sold 33,000 copies at Barnes & Noble stores across the United States, a first day record for the country's largest book seller. The book broke the