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Hi Guys,
Here’s a little advance peak at another of our Agatha Christie characters… Miss Jane Marple, the brilliant amateur consulting detective.
Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Christie’s best known inventions and has been portrayed numerous times on screen… both large and small.
She first appeared in 1930 in ‘The Murder at the Vicarage’. Over the next five decades until 1976, she solved countless difficult crimes and mysteries thanks to her shrewd intelligence and sometimes nosy and intuitive nature.
On screen she has been portrayed by a succession of fine British actresses including Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and more recently by Joan Hickson who also narrated Miss Marple for a series of audio books.
This King & Country tribute is based on the late Joan Hickson’s (1906-1998) portrayal.
As you can see here Miss Marple has decided to venture out to Egypt to see for herself the tomb of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.
While visiting the burial site who should she bump into but another great sleuthing detective, M. Hercule Poirot.
Now, even though these two great characters were created by Agatha Christie she never actually got around to having them meet in any of her novels or short stories.
Thanks to the Wonderful World of Toy Soldiers anything is possible and so here you have these two superb detectives meeting at last in the ancient land of Egypt… Enjoy!
Andy
Here’s a little advance peak at another of our Agatha Christie characters… Miss Jane Marple, the brilliant amateur consulting detective.
Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Christie’s best known inventions and has been portrayed numerous times on screen… both large and small.
She first appeared in 1930 in ‘The Murder at the Vicarage’. Over the next five decades until 1976, she solved countless difficult crimes and mysteries thanks to her shrewd intelligence and sometimes nosy and intuitive nature.
On screen she has been portrayed by a succession of fine British actresses including Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and more recently by Joan Hickson who also narrated Miss Marple for a series of audio books.
This King & Country tribute is based on the late Joan Hickson’s (1906-1998) portrayal.
As you can see here Miss Marple has decided to venture out to Egypt to see for herself the tomb of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.
While visiting the burial site who should she bump into but another great sleuthing detective, M. Hercule Poirot.
Now, even though these two great characters were created by Agatha Christie she never actually got around to having them meet in any of her novels or short stories.
Thanks to the Wonderful World of Toy Soldiers anything is possible and so here you have these two superb detectives meeting at last in the ancient land of Egypt… Enjoy!
Andy
