I enjoyed the connection to Dorothy L Sayers novel, Hangman's Holiday featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. My favorite quote: Others however are curiosities - temporary interregnums of contest history; names that give rise to tales of surprise and controversy. Except in the vast majority of cases they don’t. Roll call

The synopsis says this collection “will introduce the character to a whole new generation”. Honestly, if you want to introduce Miss Marple to a new generation, just make them read the original Christie novels because they’re timeless, expertly crafted and cleverly thought out mysteries that cannot be replicated. UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey One-Inch Seventh Series (1:63,360), 1955-1961 Parish History The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870 Miss Marple: "I have recently come to believe that dim sum which I believe this style of food is called means touch of the heart." How do you inspire a whole new generation of readers to want to become acquainted with the original, elderly female amateur detective, Agatha Christie’s “Miss Jane Marple”?

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Many people will have known the late Hannah Robinson, who lived in Marple all her life. These are Hannah's memories of Old Marple in her own words written in 2015.... In October 2020 a gentleman called Dave Watson sent me some photos that featured his mother, Joan Hope, as a young girl and also a couple of newspaper cuttings. The subjects were a 1934 pantomime at the Albert Schools and two Rose Queen events held at the Albert Schools and Rose Hill House in 1934-35. The photos have been added to the Virtual History Tour and when I read the newspaper cuttings I realised that they crossed over the stories of several similar photos already on the Tour. So I decided to scan the newspaper text as I thought it could make an interesting history article. One thing I love about these newspaper reports is that they mention so many names - perhaps your parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents are mention too? Miss Marple Takes Manhattan" by Alyssa Cole (1.5 stars)-This didn't work at all. Cole does include Miss Marple's nephew (Raymond) and his wife (Joan)but other than that, it didn't read at all like a Miss Marple book. The resolution to this didn't work for me at all either. Lucy Murphy (later to become Mrs Cutt) was on flugel and I owed so much to Les Beevers who did the ground work on the piece as I was also doing the resident conducting at Grimethorpe at the time. We were still very much a ‘family band’ from a small Cheshire village, but in contest terms we were a match for the very best.” Marple: Twelve New Stories is a collection that I salivated over the second I knew it was coming. New short stories featuring Britain's favorite female detective? Sign me up!

Marple Congregational Sunday School Rose Queen 1934, Elsie Harrison. Dave says he thinks his mum Joan Hope is sitting at the front at the feet of the Rose Queen. ROSE BUDS. Evil In Small Places By Lucy Foley - Marple takes a detour to visit an old school friend and becomes embroiled in the mysterious murder of a former French singer. Because of course she does. A great closed circle mystery that has a very distinct beginning, middle and end. Is it entirely original? No. Is the killer really obvious? Yes. However this still retains that nostalgic feel of a good Christie story, and Marple is as sharp as ever. 3/5. What I remember is James Scott, who nobody could say didn’t know a good band when he heard one, tell an irate bandsman who flippantly demanded to know how Marple won, reply; ‘They were the best band playing a wonderful piece of music in the style it was meant to be played.’ Apart from the ease of travel, which, if you were so inclined, could include train, boat and carriage, what was it about Marple that attracted all these visitors? It was mainly the scenic and unspoilt beauty of the countryside and landscape, such a relief from the grime and congestion of the city and something we perhaps take for granted today. In those more austere times, Marple was often described in the most lyrical of terms and who could fail to be attracted by a recommendation such as this: This collection of a dozen original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.Age is cruel and crueler still to women. A woman becomes a ghost when she stops being worth looking at." Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930's The Murder at the Vicarage. It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie's last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time.

I appreciate very greatly the honour conferred upon me and value so much more the opportunity that it affords me to do my best in the service of the Sunday school and Endeavour. In 1929, the Procession of Witnesses, together with a Rose Queen ceremony, which was held in The Albert Schools, were commenced by the Congregational Church. This lasted up until about 1955. My dear subjects. - I have now come to the end of my year as your Rose Queen, and I wish to thank all, especially the teachers and scholars, for making my reign so happy," she said. About 1916, my maternal grandfather, Andrew Cochran, moved with his wife and two small daughters from Paisley in Scotland, to Marple. He was an ‘engineer’s draftsman’, and worked for Campbell & Calderwood in Paisley. They designed and made boilers for steam engines, pumps and other machinery. He moved to employment at Daniel Adamson’s at Ashton under Lyne, also makers of boilers for engines for boats, trains, foundries etc. Presumably this was important work for the war effort, and he was not in WW1, as his employment was classed as a ‘reserved occupation’. My dear subjects, I thank you all for the honour you have vested upon me by electing me as your Rose Queen for the ensuing year.Then followed a clever display of folk dancing by the maids of honour on the green before the throne; and Sheila Wilcox gave a graceful exposition of classic dancing. Authors featured in this collection, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse and Ruth Ware.