One of Agatha’s lifelong ambitions had been to travel on the Orient Express her first journey took place in 1928. When she created Miss Marple, Agatha did not expect her to become Poirot's rival, but with The Murder at the Vicarage, Miss Marple’s first full-length outing, it appeared she had produced another popular and enduring character. Miss Jane Marple was an amalgam of several old ladies Agatha used to meet in villages she visited as a kid. She went on to be one of the first authors Penguin ever published, with fantastic results.įollowing the war Agatha continued to write and to travel with Archie, though sadly they were later to divorce and Agatha would remarry, Max Mallowan, the world famous archaeologist - a marriage that would last forty-six years.īy 1930, having written several novels and short stories, Agatha had created a new character to act as sleuth.
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