Married at age 15 to a millworker, she had made a pretty bride.Soon, however, her skin began to turn blotchy, then ultimately gangrenous and repulsive.
IN THIS ARTICLE: Crime writer Agatha Christie's endearing supersleuth Miss Marple started life in 1930, in Murder at the Vicarage, as "a nasty old cat" with an unpleasant habit of interfering.