ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Character. The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is quite different from how she appears in later books. This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hercule Poirot The world-renowned Belgian private detective, unsurpassed in his intelligence and understanding of the criminal mind, respected and admired by police forces and heads of state across the globe. Famous as much for his magnificent moustaches as his little grey cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -Miss Marple, original name in full Miss Jane Marple, fictional character, an English detective who is featured in a series of more than 15 detective novels by Agatha Christie. Miss Marple (as she is always called in the narration) is an elderly amateur sleuth who has always lived in St.

Detailed explanation-4: -Agatha Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I (1914–18). She began her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1916 and published it after the end of the war, in 1920. The novel introduced Hercule Poirot, one of Christie’s most enduring characters.

Detailed explanation-5: -2.1 Hercule Poirot. 2.2 Miss Marple. 2.3 Mr Satterthwaite. 2.4 Parker Pyne. 2.5 Superintendent Battle. 2.6 Tommy and Tuppence. 2.7 Colonel Race.