Miss Marple

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Miss Marple

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From the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple.

noun Miss Marples

A detective, especially an older woman. 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 sti

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@misc{miss_marple_2026,
  title = {Miss Marple},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/miss%20marple},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}