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
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