Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster from the village of St Mary Mead, solves murders by noticing that human nature is the same everywhere - every killer reminds her of someone in the village. Agatha Christie wrote twelve Miss Marple novels and twenty short stories about her, from The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930 to Sleeping Murder, which Christie wrote during the Second World War and which was published after her death in 1976.