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    Pocket Full of Rye, A (Marple, Book 7)

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Joan Hickson

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    About this audiobook

    A classic Marple mystery, superbly read by Joan Hickson. Available for the first time on audio.

    Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his ‘counting house’ when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.

    Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2006
    ISBN9780007256365
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    Pocket Full of Rye, A (Marple, Book 7)
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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