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
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