A Pocket Full of Rye
- Published
- 1 January 1953
- Pages
- 203
- ISBN-13
- 9780007853304
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953, 203 pages), the sixth novel, keeps to Christie's rigorous fair-play plotting while Marple solves the case through the same village-honed insight into human folly that defines the series. It followed They Do It with Mirrors.
Key facts about A Pocket Full of Rye
A Pocket Full of Rye is a novel by Agatha Christie. Readers have had it since 1953. It runs to 203 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of A Pocket Full of Rye. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007853304 to find the main one.
A Pocket Full of Rye is book 7 of 14 in the Miss Marple series. The series has 14 published books. However, the series starts with The Murder at the Vicarage (1930).
Additionally, Agatha Christie writes Hercule Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence and Superintendent Battle as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories is the latest published Agatha Christie book on file, from 1979.
About Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was an English author who became the best-selling novelist in history, with an estimated two billion copies of her books sold worldwide — a sales record beaten only by the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. See every Agatha Christie book in order.
Its place in Miss Marple
A Pocket Full of Rye is book 7 in the Miss Marple series. It follows They Do It with Mirrors. It is followed by 4.50 from Paddington. See the full Miss Marple reading order.
Jane Marple is an elderly, unmarried amateur detective living in the small English village of St Mary Mead, and Agatha Christie's quiet rebuttal to the idea that a detective needs to be dashing, professional, or even taken seriously. Marple solves murders by pattern-matching them against a lifetime of village gossip and human folly — she has, she insists, seen every possible motive for murder already play out over a church fete or a dispute about the vicar's roses. Christie wrote twelve Marple novels between 1930…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007120970
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007853304