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With Knitting Needles Clattering
Is there anybody out there who never heard about Jane Marple aka Miss Marple?
Agatha Christie created Jane Marple, this really nice lady, a spinster, no children … but quite a lot of life around her which she seems to enjoy. Imagine Jane Marple having tea, a real British tea, chatting leisurely with people like her, always her knitting needles not far … Although she seems to be innocuous, maybe old-fashioned, maybe somewhat lagging behind modern times Jane Marple has got a sharp wit, sharp eyes and gets in her mind anything said when she is present – and she always starts giving thought to any incongruity. So rather early she feels what’s going on … especially if there is a corpse nearby.
For me there are primarily two incarnations of Jane Marple when the novels were made into movies or Tv series. There is Joan Hickson in the Tv series of the 80s who is the perfect little lady investigating all crime and murder around her, always polite … anybody would like have a grandmother like her. However, there is also Dame Margaret Rutherford as Jane Marple in four great movies in the 60s. Margaret Rutherford is rather far from any representation of the heroine of the novels, but she was an immediate success until nowadays. (Apart from that there dozens of actresses who made it as Miss Marple … any decade experienced its own version of the novels!)
What else to mention?
It’s cosy crime novels at its best accompanied by film adaptions.