A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie

Home sick this week with nothing to do, I was in search of a little light reading that wouldn't strain my achey head too much. Agatha Christie turned out to be just the ticket. Agatha Christie seems to have an affinity for nursery rhymes. The last book of hers that I read, Ten Little Indians, used one to great effect, as did this book. Sing a Song of Sixpence starts off with a pocket full of rye, as does this book. And it goes quickly downhill from there for the characters of both the nursery rhyme and the book. The king, Rex Fortescue, is found dead in his counting house, i.e. his office. We are quickly surrounded by a whole host of possible ...  Read the complete review

Seated in his private office at the company he owned, Rex Fortescue had little reason to believe that anything untoward would occur to him one morning. Yet when he was taken ill suddenly after drinking the tea which had just been brought in, his death was to occur shortly afterwards. To the initial observers - and to Rex himself - the likeliest suspect was the drink he'd just taken, yet Inspector Neele, assigned to the case, was soon to learn that the means to cause the death had been implemented rather earlier in the day, presumably during breakfast time. Furthermore,- and rather bizzarely - a handful of rye had been found in his top pocket. With the new information ...  Read the complete review

A Pocketful of Rye ------------------------ This is yet another suspense thriller , a deep mystery written by Agatha Christie. Since her death in 1976, a number of books written by Agatha Christie have been published posthumously including, a biography and some short story collections. A pocketful of Rye is a brilliant miss Marple novel and it is one of my favorite Agatha Christie's books.This is actually Agatha Christie's sixth Miss Marple novel, written in 1953. (The first one being 'The Murder at the Vicarage ' in which Miss Marple was introduced to the readers for the first time). Miss Marple the stereotypical elderly ...  Read the complete review