Miss Marple

English Etymology From the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple. Noun A detective, especially an older woman. en The indomitable seventy-one-year-old chemistry professor, Mary Louisa Willard, the Miss Marple of State College, had arrived to help her boys find whatever material evidence might remain after the unfortunate contamination of the crime scene early Friday night. She was certain that something was still there to find. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Murder_in_the_Stacks/AZJuBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+miss+marple+of%22+-%22agatha+christie%22&pg=PT49&printsec=frontcover Globe Pequot Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away David Dekok 2014 en Le Dœuff has been rightly described as 'a female detective' - the Miss Marple of philosophy; with her finely tuned skills of logic, lucidity and wit, she carefully teases out the philosophical, as well as the political issues within the history of texts. 14 https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_Dialogue_with_Mich%C3%A8le_Le_Doeuff/JnLkEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+miss+marple+of%22+-%22agatha+christie%22&pg=PA14&printsec=frontcover Bloomsbury Publishing In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff: Philosophies, Encounters and Friendship 2023 Michele Le Doeuff, Pamela Sue Anderson en Somebody said you were the Miss Marple of Perth https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Hidden_Cause_of_Murder/VyOfxpEO7TYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22the+miss+marple+of%22+-%22agatha+christie%22&dq=%22the+miss+marple+of%22+-%22agatha+christie%22&printsec=frontcover Penguin Publishing Group A Hidden Cause of Murder C. F. Roe 1996 en terms derived from fiction eponyms en Fictional characters