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
Juliette Mole 1983, she played Bella in the Avon Touring Theatre Company's first production of Vince Foxall's "Brittle Glory", a reworking of "Richard II". Mole's first credited screen role was in the first episode of the television drama "The Fourth Arm" (1983), in which she played a WAAF. She went on to appear in "Screen Two", the Miss Marple film "4.50 from Paddington" (1987), with Joan Hickson as Marple, in "Agatha Christie's Poirot" with David Suchet, "Rumpole of the Bailey", and "Absolutely Fabulous". In "The Chief", she played Marie-Pierre Arnoux from 1993 to 1994. In the 1990s, she lived on a houseboat