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Original Title:	A Pocket Full of Rye
ISBN:	0451199863 (ISBN13: 9780451199867)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Miss Marple #7
Characters:	Rex Fortescue, Percival Fortescue, Lancelot Fortescue, Adele Fortescue, Pat Fortescue, Elaine Fortescue, Jennifer Fortescue, Mary Dove, Inspector Neele, Gladys Martin, Vivian Dubois, Ellen Curtis, Miss Ramsbottom, Irene Grosvenor, Gerald Wright, Crump, Sergeant Hay, Miss Marple

A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple #7) Paperback | Pages: 220 pages

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A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising 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 parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme!

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Title	:	A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple #7)
Author	:	Agatha Christie
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 220 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2000 by Signet (first published November 9th 1953)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics

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Book 12 for the Miss Marple Challenge. When I picked up my copy of this one, I found the first couple of pages has fallen outso I used for the first time, the preview feature on GR to read the missing bitso very glad this was available.The wealthy Rex Fortescue, a shrewd but unscrupulous man, is poisoned, falling ill just after having tea in his office, his pocket full of rye. While Mr Fortescues name and circumstances of his death merely hinted at the rhyme Sing a Song od Sixpence, before long

There's something that feels very quintessentially Christie about this one - the family dynamics, the pacing, the types of clues, the character types. All of it plays to her strengths... so much so, I'll pardon her fondness for overly contrived framing devices in the form of nursery rhymes :)

Its been a long time since Ive read any Agatha Christie and its easy to let ones brain flow back into her story telling style. Her books do have a comforting familiarity. Dry humor to set the scene; the murder; the investigation; more dead bodies; the red herrings; the revealing. No heavy lifting required. Like a pleasant spring day. This one is a Miss Marple and a decent read. It also provides an unexpected and emotional denouement.Heres the kicker for me: I find it very quaint that the British

Agatha Christie loved to use nursery rhymes as a motif in her mystery novels for added creepiness. Sometimes it works perfectly, as with And Then There Were None or Crooked House (my favorite). Sometimes it feels a little forced, as with One Two Buckle My Shoe or, in this case, A Pocket Full of Rye. The premise is clever and also disturbing--the three murders that echo the rhyme (the king, the queen, the maid). I wondered how on earth Dame Agatha would explain the murderer's use of the rhyme

Loved this - brilliantly surprising ending, and one of those ideal Christie solutions where everything turns on its head at the end and all the same facts suddenly look completely different. I would have given it four stars, except that Miss Marple didn't really (as far as I can see) have enough clues to lead her to the truth. She seemed to have magicked the truth out of nowhere. I know she's a genius about human nature, but I'd have liked a couple of more concrete clues to set her on the right

Not the best Miss Marple I have read.

As anybody who reads the Miss Marple books knows, she often trains young housemaids, so they can go into service. When Miss Marple reads that one of the young maids she trained, Gladys Martin, has been found strangled - a clothes peg left on her nose - in the garden of the house where she worked, she sets off at once to see who did such a wicked thing. Murder had already visited the family, as the head of the household, Mr Rex Fortecue, was poisoned at work and, in his pocket, was a handful of