A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple Series #6)

by Agatha Christie

Overview

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 . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062073655
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Miss Marple Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	514,083
Product dimensions:	7.82(w) x 5.36(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	690L (what's this?)

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

What People are Saying About This

Margaret Maron

“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.”

Editorial Reviews

A model of complex skulduggery.

New Yorker

Ingenious.

Times Literary Supplement (London)

This is the best of the novels starring Christie’s Miss Marple.

New York Times

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

A model of complex skulduggery.

New Yorker

"Ingenious."

Time Magazines Literary Supplement (London)

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

From the Publisher

A Miss Marple mystery brings out the best in Rosalind Ayres. She can be male or female to such a degree that one forgets who’s narrating. Yewtree Lodge is full of unsavory types, any one of whom could have murdered business tycoon Rex Fortescue. When two more guests are murdered, Miss Marple gets involved because one of the victims, Gladys Martin, was once her maid. Ayres is wonderful with all her voices—from Miss Ramsbottom, the elderly aunt upstairs, to Mary Dove, the overly composed housekeeper. Her best impersonation is Gladys, adenoidal and pathetic, the memorable voice of the innocent led astray by evil. B.H.B. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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