CHICAGO—Miss Marple, a fictional character in many of Agatha Christie’s novels, is an elderly sleuth with inquisitive nature whom some might call a busybody. She also has an instinctive ability to connect casual comments (which no one else notices) to murder, as well as a talent for connecting the dots of a past event to a present crime.
English actress Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple in a series of light comedies on film, which Christie was said to have found disappointing. One doesn’t have to stretch too far to guess at what Christie would have thought of “A Fine Feathered Murder: A Miss Marbled Mystery.” It is supposedly a spoof of Christie’s sleuth by Hell in a Handbag Productions in Chicago.
