Crime & detection · 1953 · novel

A Pocket Full of Rye

by Agatha Christie

Miss Marple series

A Pocket Full of Rye is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953 and in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co. the following year. The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) and the US edition at $2.75. The book features her detective Miss Marple. Like several of Christie's novels (e.g. Hickory Dickory Dock and One, Two, Buckle My Shoe) the title and substantial parts of the plot refer to a nursery rhyme, in this case "Sing a Song of Sixpencethe hidden mechanism of the plot is ingenious at the expense of probability" and that the novel was . Christie's overall high quality in writing detective novels led one to say "they ought to make her a Dame". Writing later, another reviewer felt that the characters included an "exceptionally nasty family of suspects" in what was "Still, a good, sour read."

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