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) 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