![]() ![]() The St Mary Mead of Katherine Grey is in Kent. In the BBC Miss Marple TV adaptation of Nemesis, a letter from Mr Rafiel's solicitors indicate that St Mary Mead is located in the (also fictional) county of Middleshire. ![]() Miss Marple's St Mary Mead is described in The Murder at the Vicarage as being in the fictional county of Downshire, but in the later novel The Body in the Library Downshire has become Radfordshire. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book in 1930, when it was the setting for the first Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage. In that novel, St Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train. ![]() The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. St Mary Mead is a fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The house on the left features as the home of Miss Jane Marple (as played by Joan Hickson) in St Mary Mead. ![]()
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