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Sing a song of sixpence
It's entirely full of suspense
Stay inside now-read it- a mystery is about to commence
Between these pages!
We are increasingly incensed at the horrid no good very bad laws in New York that let criminals get away with shootings like this weekend here-another happened last night around 5pm right near St. Patrick's Cathedral. We need a real life Miss Marple and Inspector Neele here now!
So, since you cannot control it until you vote for law and order next time, read Christie!
Even if it was all sunshine and rainbows and Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg you should have still been reading Christie but Peachy herself only had the time since covid started and now we are proud to say we are on the sixth Marple.
A total delight, A Pocket Full of Rye plays on the rhyme:
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing—
Wasn’t that a dainty dish
To set before the king?
The king was in the counting-house
Counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlor
Eating bread and honey,
The maid was in the garden
Hanging out the clothes,
There came a little blackbird
And snapped off her nose.
We are on our 14th year of writing on private businesses and quite often, they are family businesses. A family business is central to this story! Someone is up to something and read closely to see which character might be the culprit. Or culprits....beware of boyfriends!
Beyond family dynamics there are office dynamics, dynamics of upstairs/downstairs (you know, staff!) and the general community under the astute observation of Miss Jane Marple, looking out beyond her knitting needles always. She makes her entrance about halfway into this terrific tale after Christie sets the stage in her usual dramatic fashion. We like the visual of her looking like an amiable cockatoo-Chris Minton, are you reading? (p. 179)
Go toast yourself some rye to eat while you read this winner...and keep this marmalade far away from your Pooh.
A Pocket Full of Rye is Recommended by Whom You Know.
Previously on Whom You Know, we have raved about Agatha:
ALL OF HERCULE POIROT:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Murder on the Links
Poirot Investigates
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Big Four
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Peril at End House
https://www.whomyouknow.com/2020/11/readthis.agathachristie.perilatendhouse.peachydeegan.harpercollins.williammorrow.html#.X7lGvGhKg2w
Lord Edgware Dies
Murder on the Orient Express
Three Act Tragedy
and we took a break from only him and did him with others in Midwinter Murder
and returned to only him with Death in the Clouds
The ABC Murders
Murder in Mesopotamia
Cards on the Table
Murder in the Mews
Dumb Witness
Death on the Nile
Appointment with Death
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Sad Cypress
One Two Buckle My Shoe
Evil Under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
The Hollow
The Labors of Hercules
Taken at the Flood
The Under Dog and Other Stories
Mrs. McGinty's Dead
After the Funeral
Hickory Dickory Dock
Dead Man's Folly
Cat Among the Pigeons
The Clocks
Third Girl
Halloween Party
Elephants Can Remember
Curtain Poirot's Last Case
MISS MARPLE:
The Murder at the Vicarage:
The Body in the Library
The Moving Finger
A Murder is Announced
They Do It With Mirrors
About the Author
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only in the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She is the author of eighty crime novels and short-story collections, around thirty plays, two memoirs, and six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott.
She first tried her hand at detective fiction while working in a hospital dispensary during World War I, creating the now-legendary Hercule Prior with her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. In 1930, Miss Jane Marple made her first full-length novel appearance in The Murder at the Vicarage, quickly becoming another beloved and enduring character to rival Poirot's popularity. Additional series characters include the husband-and wife crime-fighting team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, private investigator Parker Pyne, and Scotland Yard detectives Superintendent Battle and Inspector Japp.
Many of Christie's novels and short stories were adapted into plays, films, and television series. The Mousetrap opened in 1952 and is the longest running play in history. Academy Award-nominated actor and director Kenneth Branagh helmed the acclaimed major motion picture Murder on the Orient Express in 2017 and its sequel, Death on the Nile, starring in both films as the Belgian detective. On the small screen Poirot has been most memorably portrayed by David Suchet, and Miss Marple by Joan Hickson and subsequently Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie.
Christie was first married to Archibald Christie and then to archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, whom she accompanied on expeditions to countries that would also serve as the settings for many of her novels. In 1971 she achieved one of Britain's highest honors when she was made a Dame of the British Empire. She died in 1976 at the age of eighty-five. The one-hundred-year anniversary of Agatha Christie stories and the debut of Hercule Poirot was celebrated around the world in 2020. Whom You Know will never stop celebrating it!
