Miss Marple

plural Miss Marples

1. A detective, especially an older woman.

   Somebody said you were the Miss Marple of Perth

   1996, C. F. Roe, A Hidden Cause of Murder, Penguin Publishing Group

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   The indomitable seventy-one-year-old chemistry professor, Mary Louisa Willard, the Miss Marple of State College, had arrived to help her boys find whatever material evidence might remain after the unfortunate contamination of the crime scene early Friday night. She was certain that something was still there to find.

   2014, David Dekok, Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away, Globe Pequot

   Le Dœuff has been rightly described as 'a female detective' - the Miss Marple of philosophy; with her finely tuned skills of logic, lucidity and wit, she carefully teases out the philosophical, as well as the political issues within the history of texts.

   2023, Michele Le Doeuff, Pamela Sue Anderson, editor, In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff: Philosophies, Encounters and Friendship, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 14