A bit dry though - the engagement level is quite limited and Miss Marple is quite a bland character. She in turn is tolerantly amused by his oh-so-clever. The Sittaford Mystery Wikipedia Hours later the politician is found stabbed to death in his room. . Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christies crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple wanders into one of his. Her first appearance was in a short story published in. The murderer changes completely and has a wildly different motivation. Miss Marple appears in twelve full-length novels. It is the first Christie novel to be given a different title for the US market. To pass the time several of the residents decide to hold a séance during which a message is spelled out indicating that Captain Trevelyan the owner of Sittaford House who was temporarily resident in the nearby town of Exhampton was dead. At the sénance a murder is pronounced which...