Starring June Whitfield & Cast, A BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)

Christie, Agatha

ISBN 10: 056338171X ISBN 13: 9780563381716

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

In the first of these Radio 4 dramatizations of two Miss Marple mysteries, it takes all of Miss Marple's ingenuity, following a brutal murder, to discover the key to a secret in a decaying country house. The second involves the death of a wealthy financier, and a mystery hidden in a nursery rhyme.

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About the Author

Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer.  Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language, and another billion in 44 foreign languages.  She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 79 novels and a short story collection, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest running play in history.  Two of the characters she created, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world famous detectives.  Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.  Agatha Christie died in 1976.

From the Inside Flap

ROM PADDINGTON
When Elspeth McGillicuddy is the only witness to a brutal murder-for which not even a body is in evidence-it takes all of Miss Marple's remarkable ingenuity to discover the key to a secret which lies buried within a decaying country house.

A POCKET FULL OF RYE
With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financier, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangest cases of her life.

Edition details

• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 056338171X
• ISBN 13: 9780563381716
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• Language: English