a pocketful of rye – Cannonball Read 17

“Breakfast with the Borgias.”

A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie

December 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

This one was really good! I think it might be my favorite of the Miss Marple books I’ve read so far, which is about half of them. (Until now I liked A Murder is Announced the best, because it had so much of Miss Marple in it, but this one barely features her at all, and it was quite good, so who knows what my standards even are anymore.) This is one of her infamous nursery rhyme mysteries (I think she did three or four […]

There was no mustard in the office.

A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie

August 14, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you’ve got access to the audiobook of this one, it’s read by Richard E Grant, who’s narrated a handful of the Miss Marple books because of his role in the BBC production of The Moving Finger. He’s not the familiar voice of Hugh Fraser, but he adds his own specific wonderful touches. This is a fun mystery novel because of the dumb and funny curiosity of the potential murder scene. Obviously, the grains of rye in the pocket of the murder victim Mr Rex […]

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