![]() ![]() I might’ve figured this even without the character’s historic weight, because Clement refers to Marple’s keen eye enough times. ![]() ![]() Smartly, Christie limits the number of scenes featuring Marple, although of course I was always aware that Marple would end up solving the case, rather than tightly wound Inspector Slack or our narrator, who functions as an armchair sleuth too. She observes people and their behavior from her garden – which has a footpath running past it – and knows how to set aside lies and false clues. Mary Mead hasn’t experienced the excitement of a murder in at least 15 years, Marple has solved lesser crimes (in the magazine-published short stories, later collected in “The Thirteen Problems,” that precede her novel debut), and she reasons that solving a murder involves the same principles. So the village is not small enough that everyone knows everyone else – but this particular area of the village happens to be quite gossipy. Mary Mead, but no connections come up here. ![]() The best supporting character from the Poirot novel “The Mystery of the Blue Train,” Katherine Grey, also is from St. Mary Mead, a small village - in which we focus on an even smaller area, with Christie providing one of those helpful maps. ![]()
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