In the authorised Miss Marple continuation short story Miss Marple Takes Manhattan, Mr Naysmith, together with Mr Smith are two residents of St. Mary Mead mentioned by Miss Marple as a village parallel of what is happening in the events in the story. Mr Smith had voted against the renovation of the vicarge while Mr Naysmith had voted in favour. Mr Smith had been outvoted but he then spread the rumour that Mr Naysmith had actually voted against and not for. He went further to claim that Mr Naysmith had been embezzling church funds. These were all lies but it took a long time to untangle the falsehoods. Mr Naysmith's reputation was destroyed and even after the lies were exposed, some people never really believe that Naysmith had done nothing wrong.