Characters in Miss Marple, the complete short stories

Supporting characters

• Miss Jane Marple

  An elderly, mild-mannered St. Mary Mead spinster repeatedly underestimated for her age and gossipy manner, who solves crimes by matching them to parallels in ordinary village life.

• Sir Henry Clithering

  A retired Commissioner of Scotland Yard and the one professional who takes Marple's deductions seriously; with Marple he is the only character present in all thirteen Tuesday Night Club stories.

• Raymond West

  A modern novelist who affectionately regards his aunt as a quaint relic, providing a foil whose sophistication is regularly outmatched by her common sense.