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ITV Productions veer all over the map when it comes to adapting Agatha’s novels.

Like Angela Lansbury herself in The Mirror Crack’d (1980), Julie McKenzie didn’t make me think Edwardian-era spinster. I kept seeing Jessica Fletcher and not Miss Marple! Joan Hickson and Geraldine McEwan both fit my mental picture of Miss Marple. The Joan Hickson version cheated on this issue. The ending was spot-on, with the post office contributing to the mystery by misdirecting the mail. I really enjoyed this film, Julia McKenzie’s first outing as Miss Marple. Quality of movie on its own: 4 poison bottles. Miss Marple gets one of Inspector Neele’s scenes. Miss Ramsbottom was eliminated, as were a few minor housemaids, secretaries, and such. ITV Productions is unreliable when it comes to fidelity to text but in this case, they were virtually letter-perfect. Enjoy free online English audiobook “A Pocket Full of Rye”, a breathtaking novel by Agatha Christie.Fidelity to text: 4 and 1/2 poison bottles. Miss Marple travels to the Fortescue home to offer information on the maid, Gladys Martin. Consequently, there are nearly as many motives as there are suspects, and no one can adequately account for his or her time. All parties stand to gain from the death of Rex Fortescue. According to him, he and his father had made their peace, and he has come back to enter the family business, much to the dismay of the oldest son, Percival, who resides at Yewtree Lodge with his wife, Jennifer. Years before, Lance had moved to Africa after his father had turned him out of the house for ostensibly forging a check.

Adding to the confusion is the sudden appearance of Lancelot Fortescue and his wife Pat. The police are baffled, both by the methods the murderer has chosen to employ and by the number of motives. Before long, Gladys Martin, the parlour maid, has been strangled, and Rex’s attractive second wife, Adele, has received a dose of cyanide in her tea. In addition, it was not his afternoon tea that poisoned him but something that he had eaten at breakfast that contained taxine, a derivative of yew. Curiously, rye is discovered in one of his pockets. A Pocket Full of Rye opens with the death of Rex Fortescue, a successful but not universally liked financier. A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953.