Miss Marple · Book 7
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.
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