Advantages: Classic vintage crime. Disadvantages: Rather old-fashioned.
...Businessman Rex Fortescue was sipping a quite cup of tea in his office when he collapses in pain, claiming he has been poisoned. Rushed to hospital, he suffers a painful death. On later inspection, his pockets were found to contain traces of cereal (rye). The local police in the form of Detective Inspector Neele, suspects that his young wife Adele, whom he believes is having an affair, has poisoned Rex for his money. But when two more deaths occur ... ...Miss Marple series. A previous version with June Whitfield (2005) is also available from BBC Books (via their website) or it may be worth enquiring at your local library. Price: £11.95, it runs for 1 hour 30 mins, over 2 CDs. A DVD version of Pocketful of Rye is also available, starring Joan Hickson as Miss Jane Marple, as seen on television. The original novel was published in 1953. It emerges that Max Fortescue was a bit of tyrant and the family ...
aspebbles 28.03.2009 (29.03.2009)
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