A Pocket Full of Rye.

CHRISTIE, Agatha.

$9,800.00

Item Number: 146514

London: Collins Crime Club, 1953.

First edition of Christie’s ingenious murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, “For Stephen from Agatha Nov. 1953.” Fine in the rare original dust jacket with two small closed tears. Housed in a custom full morocco slipcase with chemise by M.J. Adjarian. From the Richard Manney collection. An exceptional example, one of the nicest examples extant.

Here, consulting detective Miss Marple assists with the investigation of the murder of Rex Fortescue, whose autopsy has revealed that the cause of death was poisoning by taxine. "A beautiful precision-tooled job. False clues are laid with effortless skill up to the final revelation" (Julian Symons, Manchester Evening News). "Never has Mrs. Christie exerted her incomparable power of deception with more subtlety or to better effect. Superb book" (Ralph Partridge).