Julia (A Murder is Announced)

In the novel A Murder is Announced, Julia is the waitress at the Blue Bird Tea Room and Café in Chipping Cleghorn. She is described as a "sulky-looking girl in a pink overall with a flight of lovebirds down the front of it".

While serving Mrs Harmon and Miss Marple in the Bluebird, she overhead Mrs Harmon saying, "Julia, pretty Julia is peculiar...." (they had been listing the people who were at Little Paddocks during the party which resulted in the shooting of Rudi Scherz.) Julia thought they were talking about her and she wanted to know why Mrs Harmon called her a "peculiar". She had an aunt who joined the Peculiar People, but Julia herself belongs to the Church of England, something which the late Reverend Hopkinson (presumably the previous vicar) well knew.

Mrs Harmon had been referring Julia Simmons and not the Julia at the Bluebird.

Portrayals
In the BBC 1985 adaptation of the novel. Julia is portrayed by Victoria Williams. The same exchange concerning "peculiar" is depicted in detail.