Welcome to Bloganuary Day 23, where we face a myriad of increasingly bizarre prompts and continue to write about them. Why? I’m not really sure. But anyway…
Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Miss Jane Marple of St. Mary Mead
Hello Miss Marple and Welcome to out little production.
Thank you very much for having me Dear.
Please tell our readers a little about yourself
Dear me, there’s really nothing to say. I live a quiet village life. I have lovely flowers which I tend to. I can always be found with a knitting project in hand. I help out with the village fete’s as well.
I understand you’re quite a good puzzler
Oh yes. I quite enjoy the daily crossword and a lovely jigsaw puzzle. Something calming, like the seaside where I’ve spent many a lovely holiday sponsored by my dear nephew Raymond. Do you know him? He’s a writer.
I know him only by reputation. However, I meant more about your helping the Police out on occasion. I heard you’ve helped solve a crime or two
I wouldn’t say helped Dear. The Police are quite good at their jobs.
Yeah yeah yeah. But didn’t you just solve the crime at Yewtree Lodge?
Solve? No. I merely pointed out that Gladys was always taken in by a handsome face and kind words. She was a victim of charm.
Well, technically, she was a victim of murder
IS that a question Dear?
You’re making me forget what I wanted to ask…
Do you often forget things?
Sometimes when I get flustered
Well, that’s not very good. I knew someone in the village once who got flustered and forgot what they were about to say quite often
Please tell me it wasn’t Gladys…
No. But let me make you a proper cup of tea and we’ll figure out why you’re flustered…
You nailed this. Great writing!
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Thank you! I had no idea what I was doing as I wrote it
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You got her voice and your reaction.
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Good job on this one…I have no Idea where I’m going to go with it!
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It was really hard
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Terrific! She is one of my fave characters. Agatha is the best.
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We had book club yesterday and our book was A pocketful off rye…hadagatha on the brain
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Bravo! That was brilliant! You absolutely captured our wonderful Miss Marple. You know, you could totally write modern Ms Marple mysteries. Kind of like new Sherlock adventures. I have read several of those. Some are written with the original character and others with descendants of his. If you are a Sherlock fan you read those. You have beautifully pegged Marple. You could write a series with her as well. I’d buy it and read it! Oh pretty please! I love Ms Marple. Go for it! 👏❤️
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She’s in public domain now I think. Interesting thought…though this was hard! I had no idea what I was doing!
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You did it really well.
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According to this site only two of her books are in the public domain.
https://libanswers.walsh.edu/faq/167839
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Thank you!
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That was interesting about PD determined by if the book or author was published in both countries. And how she a few of her books are PD here but not in the UK.
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👍
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Ah, done in by a master puzzle solver
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😉
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How fun! I think you nailed her voice!
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Thank you! This was hard!
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You really did do a great job here. I’m not sure where I would have gone with this prompt!
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When I saw it I just laughed….I had no idea
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Wonderful! Miss Marple was a good choice, and I love how she gently turned it back around on you.
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Didn’t she always do that?!
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I was waiting for “We once had an American visitor in the village . . .”
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Oh that would have been great!! I obviously didn’t know what to do with this prompt
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I wouldn’t have done as well as you did, you really got the voice. I have Joan Hickson in my head as I type . . .
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She’s my favorite Marple so she is exactly who I was channeling
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I could tell that because of the quality of your writing. 🙂
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💗💗
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This is very clever!
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Thank you! This prompt flummoxed me
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I don’t think I could do that one.
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I just had fun with it…figured what was the worst thing that happens? Agatha Christie haunts me?
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This is awesome😁
Can I share this link on twitter so that other Christie fans can have a read?
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Go for it! And thanks!💗💗
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Excellent! I’ve picked out a few of the prompts to use on one or other of my sites. This one I’m saving for the fiction site – unsurprisingly. You did a great job of handling it.
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Thank you! This was hard for me
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Nicely done
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Thank you
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That was great! Her voice was in my head as she answered your questions.
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Thank you! This was a daunting prompt
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Oh this is good! You definitely got into hsr mind. Great job!
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Thank you!
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😊
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