Hints and tips:
...Jane Marple to solve....
...From Manchester’s fabled Liberals to Ernest Marples, the modernising Tory MP of the 1960s who brought us postcodes and motorways (and much else), there have been rightwing views of progress....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...This misogyny was repeated and exaggerated in popular novels written by former spies such as Ian Fleming and John le Carré....
...One half expects Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple to pop out from behind a gravestone. The church is the base for JAM on the Marsh, an arts festival that spans the Romney Marsh wetland....
...However, her successor John Major — needing a follow-up to Thatcher’s successful privatisation programme — opted for the railways....
...John Malkovich plays him with an accent so precise you could probably pinpoint it to a street in Belgium. It’s distractingly odd....
...“While there have been various interpretations of Miss Jane Marple for screen and radio, the character in the books remains timeless,” says James Prichard, executive chairman of Agatha Christie Ltd and great-grandson...
...Elsewhere, at NADA, Mieke Marple of Night Gallery of Los Angeles said she “sold every single thing I bought....
...The only broadcaster on hand to present the news item was another DJ, David “Diddy” Hamilton, who lived nearby in Marple....
...romance with drifting steam separating the forbidden affair between Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in A Brief Encounter with Rach 2 pounding away in the background; nor murder mysteries to be solved by Miss Marple...
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...I’m even having a few Miss Marple moments. Take the former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, who was giving evidence this week....
...Think of John Major’s “back to basics” campaign and Tony Blair’s pledge that Labour would be “whiter than white”....
...Whodunnit I spent the weekend near Marple, in the foothills of the Pennines. If it held a beauty contest, would the winner be known as Miss Marple?...
...Peter Marples, the business development director who resigned just before the first profit warning, arrived at the group with the purchase of ASSA....
...From this great thing, we switch, in the pages that follow, to the little business of the heroine’s activities - a jolly Miss Marple in an unhappy place made the less unhappy by her benign presence....
...Chorion noted strong demand from ITV for films starring Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, the aged amateur sleuth....
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