Miss Jane Marple is an elderly English lady described as one of the nation's most formidable criminologists.
Originally the star of novels and short stories by Agatha Christie, adaptations have brought the character to television, film, anime and the theatre.
The original novels and short stories
- Miss Marple
- 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 (1952)
- A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
- 4:50 from Paddington (1957)
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962)
- A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
- At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
- Nemesis (1971)
- Sleeping Murder (written 1940, published 1976)
Novels and stories by other authors
- Marple: Twelve New Stories (2022)
Films
- Miss Marple (MGM, 1961-1965)
- Murder, She Said (1961)
- Murder At The Gallop (1963)
- Murder Most Foul (1964)
- Murder Ahoy (1964)
- The Mirror Crackd (1980)
- The Secret of the Blackbirds (1983), a Russian adaptation of A Pocket Full of Rye. Titled "Tayna chyornykh drozdov" in Russian.
- Shubho Mahurat (2003), an Indian adaptation of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.
- Crime is our Business (2008), a French adaptation of 4:50 from Paddington that replaces Miss Marple with two of Agatha Christie's other characters, Tommy and Tuppence.
Television and made-for-TV movies
- Mord im Pfarrhaus (1970), German adaptation of Murder at the Vicarage.
- A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
- Miss Marple (The BBC, 1984-1992), British adaptation. Two seasons of serialised stories, followed by four TV movies. All stories are directly adapted from the original novels.
- Murder With Mirrors (1985)
- Miss Marple Stories (1990), Estonian adaptation.
- Marple (ITV, 2004-2014), British adaptation.
- Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. Adaptations of some of Christie's novels, including most of the Miss Marple novels, but with a different protagonist.
- Ms Ma Nemesis (2018), South Korean adaptation.
Theatre
- Murder at the Vicarage (1949), adapted by Barbara Toy and Moie Charles.
