Miss Marple book 6 · 1953
A Pocket Full of Rye
A businessman dies in his office, poisoned, with rye grain in his pocket. Miss Marple sees a link to the nursery rhyme and to a young maid who once worked for her.
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Book facts
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Series
- Miss Marple, book 6 of 12
- Published
- 1953
- Setting
- Set in the fictional St Mary Mead, England
- Characters charted
- 1
- Chart confidence
- High
A Pocket Full of Rye on screen
- Miss Marple (1984–1992, series, BBC One). Joan Hickson’s quiet, shrewd Miss Marple, often called the most faithful screen version of Christie’s village sleuth.
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004–2013, series, ITV). Geraldine McEwan and then Julia McKenzie play Miss Marple, in freer adaptations that sometimes place her in Christie mysteries she never originally solved.
Who is in A Pocket Full of Rye
1 recurring or key character from Agatha Christie’s chart.
Lead 1
- Miss MarpleElderly spinster from St Mary Mead