
Miss Marple has a nephew, successful author Raymond West, who though extremely fond of his aunt, believes her to be out of touch with the real world.

Miss Marple lives in St Mary Mead, a fictitious village somewhere in the South of England. Miss Marple appears in twelve full-length novels. Agatha states in her autobiography, ‘Certainly at that time I had no intention of continuing her for the rest of my life.’ Miss Marple was never intended by Agatha Christie to become a rival to Hercule Poirot. Miss Marple did not appear in another full length novel until The Body in the Library published in 1942, although she was the mainstay of The Thirteen Problems a book of short stories published in 1932.


Miss Marple made her first appearance in Murder at the Vicarage first published in 1930. Welcome to the 10 Things You Should Know About Miss Marple page, one of a series of such pages here on the All About Agatha Christie website.
