A Pocket Full of Rye

A Pocket Full of Rye (1953) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple, #7)

Miss Grosvenor was an incredibly glamorous blonde. She wore an expensively cut little black suit and her shapely legs were encased in the very best and most expensive black-market nylons.

Where was there a doctor near here? Nobody knew. Miss Bell seized a telephone directory and began looking up Doctors under D.

Someone suggested 999 but Miss Griffith was shocked at that and said it would mean the police and that would never do.

“Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid.

…

You’ve no idea, Neele, how tired one gets of the inevitable weed killer. Taxine is a real treat.

Characters: Rex Fortescue, Percival Fortescue, Lancelot Fortescue, Adele Fortescue, Pat Fortescue, Elaine Fortescue, Jennifer Fortescue, Mary Dove, Detective Inspector Neele, Gladys Martin, Vivian Dubois, Miss Ramsbottom, Irene Grosvenor, Gerald Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Crump, Sergeant Hay, Miss Marple, Professor Bernsdorff, Albert Evans, Helen MacKenzie, Mr. Billingsley

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Rating: 9/10

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