A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple) - Hardcover

Christie, Agatha

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9780007208524: A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007208529 ISBN 13: 9780007208524

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

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A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books, published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance and to celebrate her new-found success on television.

When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930, little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie, already famous for her early Poirot titles, was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years, with Miss Marple's Final Cases published in 1979, three years after Agatha's death.

To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marple's first appearance, and to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form – 12 novels and two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting and formats from the first editions from the Christie family's own archive copies, these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies, reflecting five decades of iconic cover design.

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A model of complex skulduggery. --New Yorker Ingenious. --Times Literary Supplement (London) This is the best of the novels starring Christie s Miss Marple. --New York Times "A model of complex skulduggery."--New Yorker "Agatha Christie was the absolute master of misdirection. No matter how logical we think we're being when we read her, she always manages to send us swimming after her red herrings while ignoring that huge whale in the corner of the tank."--Margaret Maron, award-winning author of the Deborah Knott Mysteries "Ingenious."--Times Literary Supplement (London) "This is the best of the novels starring Christie's Miss Marple."--New York Times

Book Description:

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the deceptively mild spinster sleuth.

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