Miss Marple

The Mysterious Case of Golden Age Detective Fiction An English country estate. A detective pacing the room, explaining how they have solved the crime, revealing the solution to a puzzle and the clues which were there all along.…

Episode 15: The Scarlet Pimpernel & Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel is a character now long disconnected from his origins in a 1903 novel. The Pimpernel is a mysterious Englishman who uses elaborate disguises to heroically rescue…

Jane Marple, Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley and Maud Silver would be more accurately described as Golden Girls of the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, but that would make for a cumbersome title. All three characters found their way into print…