ListenMASTERPIECE™ MYSTERY! Miss Marple ‘A Pocket Full of Rye’
Airs Thursday, October 29 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV
Above: A string of murders is committed by a killer who seems obsessed with the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence. Even Miss Marple’s former housekeeper falls victim. Blackbird pie anyone? Pictured: Matthew Macfadyen as Inspector Neele.
June 29, 2009
When Miss Marple learns of the deaths of businessman Rex Fortescue, his young wife, Adele, and their housemaid, Gladys, the circumstances vividly recall the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." Since Miss Marple had trained Gladys herself, she has a personal reason to investigate. Will her reasoning and deduction make sense of the rhyme and at last reveal the culprit? Watch a preview.
