A rye handle

a handle of rye ( has off Pocket full Rye in the original edition) is a Detective novel of Agatha Christie, published in 1953, putting in scene Miss Marple.

The intrigue of the novel

The history occurs to Baydon Heath in a villa being called Yewtree Lodge (the house of the yews). Mr. Fortescue is found dying in his office after its secretary brought his to him. The Neele inspector discovers that it could be assassinated with the taxine, a poison resulting from the yew and that the corpse has a rye handle in its pocket. As the poison spends a few hours for fact effect, it was managed at the time of the breakfast. The inspector thus inquires in the house of the victim near the close relations of this one, who have a whole a mobile to want to assassinate the old man: the young wife, who has a lover, but which is assassinated in its turn; the oldest son, who was in disagreement with his father on the walk of their businesses or his wife, which was present during the breakfast; the girl, who loves a man that his/her father did not approve; the second wire, who had been scrambled with his father for a few years. The tracks do not miss. Miss Marple will come to help the inspector, because the third assassination concerns an young woman who lived in the village of the old woman.

The title

The title of the novel, has off Pocket Full Rye or has Pocketful Rye off comes from a old Comptine English, Sing has song off sixpence , apparently well-known of Agatha Christie since it inspires not only the title to him of this novel, but still that of two police news: Furnace and Twenty Blackbirds and Sing has off Song Sixpence published in the USA in 1950 pennies the title Three Blind Mice , itself that of a famous counting rhyme. The original song refers to the Whiskey manufactured starting from rye and not to the Seigle itself which one finds in the pocket of the victim. As in Ten small negros , the author makes correspond the adventures of the intrigue to those of the counting rhyme.

Editions

has off Pocket full Rye , Trading Company, London, 1953
a handle of rye , Librairie of the Fields-Élysées, Paris, 1955
a handle of rye , Édition of the Club France Leisures, Paris, 1997. ISBN 2-7441-1030-2

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