What is the name of the village where Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple lives?

Miss Marple lives in the fictional English village of St Mary Mead.

Agatha Christie introduced Jane Marple in “The Thirteen Problems,” a series of stories published in 1927 and later collected as “The Tuesday Night Club.” Marple is an elderly amateur detective whose knowledge of village behavior helps her understand crimes that initially seem mysterious.

St Mary Mead is fictional, but Christie uses it as a detailed social setting. The village’s residents, gossip, rivalries, and conventions give Marple a broad store of human examples to compare with each new case. Her methods rely less on forensic technology than on recognizing recurring motives and personalities.

St Mary Mead is sometimes confused with settings from other Christie works. King’s Abbot belongs to “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,” while Styles St Mary is associated with Hercule Poirot’s first published case. Chipping Cleghorn is the setting of “A Murder Is Announced.”