Agatha Christie's Marple was voiced by Herbert Lom (who also made an on-screen appearance as Mr Dufosse in "The Murder at the Vicarage") in "Nemesis" and played by Antony Sher in "A Caribbean Mystery". The series also featured real-life characters: Winston Churchill appeared in "The Sittaford Mystery", Noël Coward in "", Louis Armstrong in "At Bertram's Hotel", and Ian Fleming and James Bond in "A Caribbean Mystery". Christie wrote twelve novels about Miss Marple, all of which have been adapted for the series. They are: In addition, a short story featuring Miss Marple, "The Blue Geranium," was adapted into a full-length episode. Three
Marple Junction Marple Junction Marple Junction () is the name of the canal junction where the Macclesfield Canal terminates and meets the Peak Forest Canal at Marple, Greater Manchester, England. The water of the two canal companies was kept apart by a stop lock in the narrows at the end of the later Macclesfield Canal, but this has long since been de-gated, and the two canals run at the same level. The Peak Forest Canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament obtained in 1794, which was designed to access the limestone deposits at Doveholes, near Whaley Bridge. The canal ran from