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Jane
Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character
appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty
short stories (list at bottom of page). From 1984
to 1992, the BBC adapted all of the original Miss Marple novels as a
series titled 'Miss Marple' starring Joan Hickson (a total of twelve
stories over 21 episodes, spanning three seasons). A number of books
were published with TV-themed covers.
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In My Collection / 
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Covers
from the BBC Series
Fontana Books
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1985
 The Body in the Library |
1985
 A Murder is Announced |
1985
 A Pocket Full of Rye |
Season 2 : The Murder at the Vicarage (1986) Sleeping Murder (1987) At Bertram's Hotel (1987) Nemesis (1987)
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1986
 The Murder at the Vicarage |
1986
 Sleeping Murder |
1986
 At Bertram's Hotel |
1986
 Nemesis |
Season 3 : 4.50 From Paddington (1987) A Caribbean Mystery (1989) They Do It With Mirrors (1991) The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side (1992)
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1989
 A Caribbean Mystery |
Guild
Publishing Books
Hardback
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1987
 A Miss Marple Quartet |
Harper Collins Books
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2002
 Miss Marple's Final Cases |
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From 2004 to 2013, ITV broadcast a series of adaptations of Agatha Christie's
books under the title 'Marple', running for six seasons. The first three
seasons featured Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple, and from the fourth
season Julia McKenzie took over the role. Several of the episodes were
adapted from Agatha Christie novels that did not originally feature
Miss Marple. A number of books were published with TV-themed covers.
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Covers from the ITV Series
Harper Collins Books
Season 1 : The Body in the Library (2004) The Murder at the Vicarage (2004) 4.50 from Paddington (2004) A Murder is Announced (2005)
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2005
 The Body in the Library |
2005
 The Murder at the Vicarage |
2005
 4.50 From Paddington |
2005
 A Murder is Announced |
Season 2 : Sleeping Murder (2005) The Moving Finger (2006) By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2006) The Sittaford Mystery (2006)
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2005
 Sleeping Murder |
2005
 The Moving Finger |
Season 3 : At Bertram's Hotel (2007) Ordeal by Innocence (2007) Towards Zero (2008) Nemesis (2008)
Season 4 : A Pocket Full of Rye (2009) Murder is Easy (2009) They Do It with Mirrors (2009) Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2009)
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2009
 A Pocket Full of Rye |
2009
 They Do It With Mirrors |
Season 5 : The Pale Horse (2010) The Secret of Chimneys (2010) The Blue Geranium (2010) The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2010)
Season 6 : A Caribbean Mystery (2013) Greenshaw's Folly (2013) Endless Night (2013)
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There
was also a fictional biography of Jane Marple written by Anne Hart which
was first published in 1985 (in the US) and 1986 (in the UK) in hardback
with Margaret Rutherford on the front cover. It was subsequently re-published
in paperback with Joan Hickson on the cover in 1991 and with Geraldine
McEwan on the cover in 1997. I also have two German paperback copies
in my collection with Margaret Rutherford on the cover, shown below.
The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple |
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1986
 Macmillan Books |
1991
 Sphere Books |
1997
 Harper Collins Books |
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1985
 Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag Books |
1991
 Scherz Krimi Books |
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In
addition to the two TV series, there were a number of films made over
the years...
Four films starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple... Murder, She Said (1961) based on the book "4:50 From Paddington" Murder at the Gallop (1963), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel "After the Funeral" Murder Most Foul (1964), based on the 1952 Poirot novel "Mrs McGinty's Dead" (no film-cover book known) and Murder Ahoy! (1964) not based on any book (no film-cover book known). One film starring Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple... The Mirror Crack'd (1980) (film-cover book published by Fontana in 1981) Three films starring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple... Murder Is Easy (1982) A Caribbean Mystery (1983) and Murder With Mirrors (1985). No known book covers for any of these. |
Pocket
Books
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1961
 Murder, She Said |
Fontana
Books
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1963
 Murder, She Said |
1963
 Murder at the Gallop |
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1981
 The Mirror Crack'd |
Agatha
Christie's Miss Marple Books List
with
original publication date and alternate titles
The Murder at the Vicarage
(1930)
The Body in the Library (1942)
The Moving Finger (1943)
A Murder is Announced (1950)
They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder with Mirrors (1952)
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
4.50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! Filmed as 'Murder, She
Said' (1957)
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, or The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
Nemesis (1971)
Sleeping Murder (written around 1940, published 1976)
The Thirteen Problems (short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also
published as The Tuesday Club Murders) (1932)
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (short stories collected posthumously,
also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories
actually feature Miss Marple) (written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979)
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories, published 1985, includes 20 from
4 sets: The Tuesday Club Murders, The Regatta Mystery, Three Blind Mice and
Other Stories, and Double Sin and Other Stories.