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Facts about Jane: : Miss Marple: Agatha Christie
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1 Apart from solving a juicy homicide, two of Miss Jane Marple's
favourite hobbies are bird-watching and gardening. Early in her
career, she used bird-watching as an excuse to spy on inhabitants of
St Mary Mead.
2 When she first appeared in 1928, Miss Marple's age was given as
74. In At Bertram's Hotel in 1965 she is described as looking a
hundred and throughout the book her old age is emphasised. In
Nemesis, in 1971, she is approximately 110 years old and still
active.
3 Miss Marple's home of St Mary Mead was an amalgam of several
places that Agatha Christie knew. The fictional town is 25 ...
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