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
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