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Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #13 – Miss Marple

9 July 2012 7:19 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Joan Hickson was the perfect Marple - capturing her fluffy ruthlessness so completely that nobody before or since has matched her

If you want to take me back in time with only one sensory stimulus, you could leave the madeleines in the cake tin. All you need to do is play the opening trills of the theme tune to the BBC's Miss Marple, and I would be slammed back to the Christmas of 1984, when the first episode, The Body in the Library, was screened on Boxing Day. That was two days after they showed the final episode of The Box of Delights, incidentally, which explains why every Christmas since then has been less good, at least in telly terms (though it was also the Christmas my hamster escaped, so the festivities weren't unblemished).

Joan Hickson is, as far as I am concerned, the only Miss Marple who matters. I can be flexible about some detectives, »

- Natalie Haynes

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