A Pocket Full of Rye (BBC Radio Collection: Crimes and Thrillers)

Novel, Cozy mystery by Agatha Christie

Blurb

A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953, and in the US by Dodd, Mead & co. the following year. The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence and the US edition at $2.75. The book features her detective Miss Marple. Like several of Christie's novels the title and substantial parts of the plot reference a nursery rhyme, in this case Sing a Song of Sixpence.
Miss Marple travels to the Fortescue home to offer information on the maid, Gladys Martin. She works with Inspector Neele until the mysteries are revealed.

First Published

1953

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