TV-PG. Watch Miss Marple - Season 2, Episode 6 - A Pocketful of Rye, Part One: Rex Fortescue dies during tea, which baffles the police. English [CC] Audio Languages. Following another murder, Miss Marple is certain that she knows who the next victim will be. A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and 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. March 8, 1985. A Pocketful of Rye - Part 2. Joan will always be the character naturally, but Julia is actually rather wonderful, having read all of the Miss Marple novels I have a mental picture of what I believe her to look like and how I'd expect her to behave, mannerisms etc, and Julia hits the mark incredibly well, there seems a … The clever plotting uses a nursery rhyme (one of Christie's favorite ways of linking a complex set of clues to a murder), and gives a nice assortment of suspicious characters a chance to make the perfect sort of red herrings. Audio Languages. English. Can she get to them in time? Subtitles. Subtitles. 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. JOAN HICKSON was an excellent Jane Marple and this is definitely one of the better TV works of Agatha Christie's A POCKET FULL OF RYE. 54min. Watch Miss Marple - Season 2, Episode 6 - A Pocketful of Rye, Part One: Rex Fortescue dies during tea, which baffles the police.