Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple in a 1963 film adaptation
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AQA (B): Paper 2 Crime writing
Alone among the biggest-hitting women crime writers of the genre’s Golden Age — Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and Josephine Tey — Agatha Christie chose to create a female detective. Miss Marple of St Mary Mead first appeared in ‘The Tuesday Night Club’, a short story published in The Royal Magazine’s Christmas 1927 issue, and according to Christie:
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