Agartha Christie’s novel A Pocket full of rye.- My review

Agartha Christie’s novel  A Pocket full of Rye.- My review

I have never read Christie’s novel earlier. The novel is a crime thriller and a detective story, unfolds the murder mystery of Rex Fortescue, the boss of a financial empire. Miss.Marple, an elderly lady with a habit of solving murders ,helps Neele who is  a detective inspector to solve  the murder mystery of  a threesome .

I  started reading the book reluctantly since it was my first reading of a crime thriller.  It sucked me into it. As it was quite interesting, I couldn’t put down the book and  finished it in one go.

At first readers suspect Adele , a young wife of Rex fortescue , whose favourite pass time was playing Golf with her paramour Dubois. Neele too suspected her that she might poisoned her old husband since she had an extra martial affair. Adele fortescue too poisoned while Neele investigation was going on.

An innocent  parlour maid  Gladys was used as a pawn and made a scapegoat by Albert Evans her boy friend , a cold blooded murderer(originally he was Lance  Fortescue , younger son of Rex)Gladys was strangled to death .  somebody  was going on killing spree..I felt anxious while reading  to knew  the Murderer. Mrs.Marple found out the solution with the help of a nursery rhyme.

“Sing a song  of sixpence

a pocket full of rye

four and twenty four black birds

baked in a pie”

the writer tried to depict every character suspicious. Christie worked as a pharmacist during world wars and she had sound knowledge of poisons and drugs. She used two different kinds of poisons i.e. toxin and cyanide .

It is a simple detective story with a few  twists and turns.

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