A Friday Post: A Pocket Full of Rye, by Agatha Christie

Hello friends!

Here’s my Friday Post.

Every Friday Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader where you can share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.

The last book I finished was A Pocket Full of Rye, by Agatha Christie. The beginning made me smile!

It was Miss Somers’s turn to make the tea. Miss Somers was the newest and the most inefficient of the typists. She was no longer young and had a mild worried face like a sheep.

Also every Friday there is The Friday 56, hosted by Freda at Freda’s Voice.

These are the rules:

• Grab a book, any book.
• Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
• Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.
• Post it.
• Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda’s most recent Friday 56 post.

A snippet from page 56:

Inspector Neele looked at the closed door and wondered. Whether actuated by malice or not, what she had told him could not fail to be suggestive.

Book Synopsis

Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his ‘counting house’ when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.

Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme…