taxikvm.blogg.se - Matthew macfadyen a pocket full of rye

She is the only one that shows sorrow for Rex's death. Elaine Fortescue - The last of Rex's three children.He flew into London just two days before Rex died for the deal to be finalized but it never was.

He was not liked by Rex and lived in Africa for seven years before Rex finally made him a business deal.

Lancelot Fortescue - Also one of Rex's three children.

He was the "favourite" child and his mother, Rex's first wife, died when he was 12 years old. Percy, Val) - One of Rex's three children. She also had a boyfriend named Vivian Dubois.

Adele Fortescue - Second wife of Rex Fortescue which has had no children with him.

He is in his second marriage and has two sons and a daughter.

Rex Fortescue - Businessman who is the first to die.

She works together with Inspector Neele on the case, who seems to have a very different idea of what happened. Murder though, is anything but child's play. Marple realizes the murders are arranged according to the pattern of her childhood nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence'.

Going on the only clue, a pocket full of rye found on the victim, Miss Marple begins investigating. Dubois, was the suspect next, as well as just about everyone that knew the family. His wife was the main suspect in the murder, until she also was murdered, after she as well drank the tea. Fortescue died during his morning tea in the office and the diagnosis was that a poison, taxine - a poison found as an alkaloid in berries of the yew tree, had killed him. Synopsis: When wealthy Rex Fortescue dies while having, the police are baffled. Genre: An Agatha Christie novel featuring Miss Marple