Lest we forget, this is a woman who - quite apart from the sparkly white teeth and impressive physique - is more than young enough to be the original Miss Marple's daughter.
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That's 38-year-old Jennifer Garner, best known for her role as an indestructible super agent in the long-running series Alias. The forthcoming version will relocate the plodding but unmissable "action" to the US the character of Miss Marple being played by the notably wrinkle-free Jennifer Garner. Such a well-loved character is always going to be tricky to cast, which is why it's no surprise that Disney's announcement about its new adaptation was greeted with howls of outrage. Thought of by many as the female version of the author's first character, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, Marple has withstood the ravages of time to become as admired as the mustachioed crime-solver. Believed to have been written during the Blitz, the book was kept in a vault for roughly 30 years, finally reaching the public soon after Christie's death in 1976.Ĭhristie based the character of Marple, whom she described as a kind person, on the old ladies she had chanced upon in various English countryside villages where she had gone to stay as a child.
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At an age when most people would be knitting, sucking on boiled sweets and playing card games (feel free to throw in any ageist stereotypes you can imagine) Agatha Christie's eternally septuagenarian sleuth, Miss Jane Marple, was solving murders.įirst introduced in 1926's The Tuesday Night Club, a short story of Christie's that was published in The Sketch magazine the same year, the quintessentially British spinster features in 19 other short stories, as well as 12 novels - the final of which, Sleeping Murder, was also the last of Christie's works to be published.
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