![]() This same childlike affection is the most attractive quality of Marple: Twelve New Stories, a new collection of short stories featuring Christie’s detective. They’re full of mystery and worldly wisdom and they have stories to explain everything what more could a child possibly want out of an adult? This, to me, was always the decisive distinction between Poirot and Marple over time Christie grew tired of Poirot’s intellectual pride and grandstanding (the latter is an all-too-common trait among men, it has to be said) whereas until the very end, she viewed Marple with the same childlike affection. The description is fitting because in the eyes of a child, senior citizens equal Christmas coming early. Christie wrote that Miss Marple was “the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my step-grandmother’s Ealing cronies-old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl”. ![]() ![]() In her autobiography, Agatha Christie described the origins of Miss Marple (her most enduring creation, alongside Hercule Poirot) in a rather charming way. ![]()
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