Agatha Christie’s elderly spinster sleuth Miss Marple could be getting a modern makeover courtesy of a US reboot.

For starters, she’ll be much younger in this new series than she is in the famous books or previous TV adaptations.

Spooks creator David Wolstencroft, who will serve as executive producer, is also moving the setting from England to California.

Agatha Christie's Marple star Julia McKenzie
Agatha Christie’s Marple star Julia McKenzie (Nathalie Bauer/Invision)

According to Variety, the Agatha Christie estate is involved in the remake, with grandson Matthew Prichard and Hilary Strong of Agatha Christie Ltd in producing roles.

This latest incarnation from American network CBS is to be titled Marple and will see the intrepid detective give up her job in a book shop to solve mysteries.

The fictional Miss Marple character made her debut in a 1927 short story before going on to feature in 12 of Christie’s crime novels.

Aficionados of the BBC’s long-running Miss Marple, which starred the late Joan Hickson, and ITV favourite Agatha Christie’s Marple, played by the late Geraldine McEwan and then by Julia McKenzie, will probably disapprove of the update.

However, CBS has been down this road before as it is the network which moved Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes to New York City for Elementary, starring Jonny Lee Miller. The show’s fourth season will air soon.

There is no word as yet as to whether any UK broadcasters will air Marple.