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A Pocket Full of Rye: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries, 6) Paperback – April 12, 2011

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In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme.

Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his “counting house” when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.

Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme . . .

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	DEAD MAN'S FOLLY:A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY	THREE BLIND MICE AND OTHER STORIES	MURDER IN THE MEWS:FOUR CASES OF HERCULE POIROT	A POCKET FULL OF RYE:A MISS MARPLE MYSTERY	THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS:A MISS MARPLE MYSTERY	THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN:A HARLEY QUIN COLLECTION

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“This is the best of the novels starring Christie’s Miss Marple.” — New York Times

“A model of complex skulduggery.” — New Yorker

“Ingenious.” — Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Agatha Christie was the absolute master of misdirection. No matter how logical we think we’re being when we read her, she always manages to send us swimming after her red herrings while ignoring that huge whale in the corner of the tank.” — Margaret Maron, award-winning author of the Deborah Knott Mysteries

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Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his “counting house” when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.

Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme. . . .

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 12, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062073656
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062073655
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 690L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 7.82 x 5.36 inches

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Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. Yet Agatha Christie was always a very private person, and though Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple became household names, the Queen of Crime was a complete enigma to all but her closest friends.

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Lovely mystery

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2023

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Unexpected ending, well written. Agatha pulls you in with each character. I can't wait to pick up her next book.

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Agatha Christie mysteries

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024

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This was an interesting mystery. Miss Marple doesn’t arrive on the scene until the book is better than halfway (60%). You have revenge, sibling rivalry, a young stepmother, and a father who is not well mentally. A little bit of everything.

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Bradley Friedman

Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, and Joan Hickson make a formidable trio!

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2015

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This is a review of the audio CD of Agatha Christie's sixth Miss Marple mystery novel. Although Dame Christie wrote far more books featuring her most famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot, the story goes that she grew tired of the little Belgian and embraced the elderly spinster from St. Mary Mead. Careful readers of her work will notice that, in the later Poirot mysteries, he often does not appear until well into the book and/or he shares the stage with the delightful Ariadne Oliver, mystery novelist and "sort of" stand-in for Agatha Christie herself. The later Miss Marples tend to humanize her more and show her as a central figure. Listeners to this novel on CD have a special treat in that they get to listen to Joan Hickson, the finest portrayer of the character, read the book in all her dithery glory.

Before we see Miss Marple, we get to meet the loathsome members of Rex Fortescue's family at their odd estate, Yewtree Lodge. Fortescue is NOT old money; rather, he is a crass member of the nouveaux riche, married to a most inappropriate younger beauty, hated by one son and estranged from the other. Each family member is out for him or herself; even the servants in this household (perhaps the most interesting lot of servants of any of Christie's manor house mysteries) have their foibles and secrets. Very few characters in this menage are likable, but of course that makes for a wonderful mystery.

A series of murders occurs which loosely follow the Mother Goose rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." One of these murders hits close to home for Miss Marple, and she journeys to Yewtree Lodge, determined to seek justice for more personal reasons than usual. And in her own fluffy style, she succeeds in a case that baffles the police.

Miss Marple works intuitively, so don't expect the clueing to be as clever as it is in the Poirot books. But this book makes up for that with a tug at the heartstrings, and the final pages have some moments that are rather heartbreaking. The women characters in this novel are particularly diverse and enjoyable. Highly recommended and great fun!

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Another Great Agatha Christie Mystery!

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2021

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I read a Pocket Full of Rye as the May selection for the Read Christie 2021 challenge. The theme for May was a story featuring tea.

Rex Fortescue has just drunk a new cup of tea when he has a violent reaction and dies at a nearby hospital. Mysteriously his pockets are found full of rye. What caused his death? Inspector Neele is immediately on the scene. He discovers there are many who would wish Rex’s death, including his own family. When Miss Marple arrives on the scene, she helps him to realize that the death is part of a story rhyme. “Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye. . .“ Who is the killer and where will they strike next?

I thought I had this one figured out – but Agatha Christie got me again. I love her twists, turns, and surprises at the end. This was my first Miss Marple mystery and what surprised me is that she wasn’t present until about one hundred pages into this novel. I was surprised that she didn’t appear for so long and was a secondary character to the main inspector. I’m interested to learn whether this is true for all of her novels or not. Nemesis, another Miss Marple mystery, is the selection for this month.

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“Confronted by the unexpected, her poise was shaken.”

“Human nature is much the same everywhere, is it not?”

Overall, A Pocket Full of Rye is an another great Agatha Christie mystery. I can’t get enough of them!

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Invites a second reading!

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2021

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It's often said that mysteries are good for only one reading. Like videos of weddings and sports events, once you know how it ends, the novelty wears off.
Not so with Agatha Christie’s A Pocket Full of Rye.
Although I’d long been aware of Agatha Christie’s works, this is the first of her books I’ve read. I must admit, it’s easy to understand her popularity as a writer of mysteries! The characters are clearly delineated, enabling the reader to form a mental picture of each. The dialogue is on a par with Mark Twain’s, tailored to the accent, tone, and personality of each individual. The story moves apace. And, most ingenious, the reveal at the end is (well, for me it was) an utter surprise – and yet all the clues are presented beforehand. (I admit I did catch all the clues as they came up; but I was caught up in the narrative and misled by the twists & turns!)
Whether you’re a fan of whodunits, a writer of taut fiction, or just want to read a good solid page-turner that invites you to give it a second go to catch all the clues you missed the first time around, I highly recommend A Pocket Full of Rye.

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Reading is an excellent way to relax

Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2024

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All Agatha Christie books are exciting reading. Keep the reader guessing for who committed the crime. Amazon has good pricing and very wide selection

Sir S. Chakraborty

Miss Marple at her best

Reviewed in India on March 12, 2024

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A classic who-done-it adventure from the Queen of Crime featuring the demure, lovable, affable Miss Jane Marple; the placid specialist who reconstructs a crime from bare fragments of evidence while at her knitting; that is bound to take you on a literary journey of a few fulfilling hours.