Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple should be just a quaint period piece. An elderly lady with no professional experience assisting the police in murder enquiries? You must be joking, guv! And yet her popularity endures. Although it may seem that Christie’s creation is outmoded and irrelevant to present-day attitudes and expectations, in many ways she embodies … Continue reading Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple — Female Literary Detectives