A Pocket Full of Rye
- 228
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Miss Marple does what she does best in “A Pocket Full of Rye”: she solves a murder by watching closely and comparing. Behind the mild elderly lady is a keen intelligence, and people tell her things they would never tell the police. Some readers find the characters easier to keep apart than in the first Marple novel, and others find the book a sad one, with an author hard on her women.
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About the book
A Pocket Full of Rye is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953 and in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co. the following year. The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) and the US edition at $2.75. The book features her detective Miss Marple.
Reading order · Miss Marple
Full order & progress →- The Murder at the VicarageStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Body in the Library
7.57.5 / 10 - The Moving Finger
7.57.5 / 10 - A Murder Is Announced
7.87.8 / 10 - They Do It with Mirrors
7.57.5 / 10 - A Pocket Full of RyeThis book
7.77.7 / 10 - 4.50 from Paddington
7.67.6 / 10 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
7.77.7 / 10 - A Caribbean Mystery
7.47.4 / 10 - At Bertram's Hotel
7.37.3 / 10 - Nemesis
7.67.6 / 10 - Sleeping Murder
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 135 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.8 | 13 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 122 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Pocket Full of Rye?
It has 228 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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