It's Miss Marple who realizes that the murders were done in the pattern of the nursery rhyme, " Sing a song of sixpence ". Miss Marple finagles her way into an invitation to the Fortescues' household to ensure justice is done. Poor Gladys Martin is found strangled in the backyard, which draws the attention of Miss Jane Marple, who knew Gladys. It's an Agatha Christie novel so there's Never One Murder. The household grows when, very soon after the murder, Rex's Black Sheep younger son Lance returns from a long sojourn in Africa. Domestic staff includes Gladys Martin, the dimwitted parlor maid, and Mary Dove, the housemaid who seems to know more than she's telling. That household includes Rex's Gold Digger Trophy Wife Adele, his wimpy but dutiful son Percival, Percival's unhappy wife Jennifer, and Rex's daughter Elaine, who is the only one that cares that Rex is dead. When he is discovered to have been poisoned by taxine, which takes a few hours, suspicion shifts from the office workers to his household, where he had breakfast. A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, published in 1953.īusinessman and all-around Jerkass Rex Fortescue takes a sip of tea in his London office and promptly dies.
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