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He is a well-known author and Miss Marple's nephew. [1] He is not interested in Marple's cases, but in some novels (like A Caribbean Mystery and At Bertram's Hotel) he supports Marple financially. His wife Joan (née Lemprière), an artist, is also sympathetic to Marple.
A group of friends are meeting at the house of Miss Marple in St Mary Mead. As well as the old lady herself, there is her nephew – the writer Raymond West – the artist Joyce Lemprière, Sir Henry Clithering (a former Scotland Yard commissioner), a clergyman called Dr Pender, and Mr Petherick, a solicitor.
From 1984 to 1992, the BBC adapted all of the original Miss Marple novels as a series titled Miss Marple. Joan Hickson played the lead role. In the 1940s, she had appeared on stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death , which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, "I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple". [ 26 ]
Alongside the murder mystery plot, the novel takes time to consider alternative perspectives on the idea of crime. Miss Marple's nephew, Raymond West, attempts to solve the crime via Freudian psychoanalysis, while Dr Haydock expresses his view that criminal behaviour is a disease that will soon be solved by doctors instead of police.
Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s harmless little old lady sleuth, came first—but it wasn’t until the 1970s that a female sleuth actually held a full-time job as a private detective.
Raymond West: well known author and nephew of Miss Jane Marple. Joan West: Painter, wife of Raymond, and cousin to Giles Reed. Miss Jane Marple: Raymond's aunt, loves to garden, and with a way of finding out murderers. Dr Haydock: Miss Marple's physician, who she talks into advising her to take a trip at the seaside.
Miss Marple, titled Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the series, is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC One. All twelve original Miss Marple novels by Christie were dramatised.
Bethany previously shared news of her “sweet” and “precious” nephew's condition on social media last week, writing in an Oct. 12 post that Andrew drowned on the evening of Oct. 11.