A Pocket Full of Rye

First published in 1953 and first issued by Fontana Books in 1958. This copy is the fourteenth impression, printed March 1973.

Cover painting by Tom Adams

Sergeant Hay looked up at Inspector Neele from the bottom of the stairs. He was panting.

"Sir," he said urgently. "We've founf her!"

"Found who?"

"Gladys, sir, the maid. Strangles she was, with a stocking around her throat - been dead for hours, I'd say. And, sir, it's a wicked kind of joke - there was a clothes peg clipped on her nose..."