Description

First Australian Edition [The Crime Club, Sydney, 1953]; 208 pages; red cloth, black titling to spine, boards mottled, black texta at spine base, bookseller stamp inner front board, a very good copy; in near-fine dust-jacket, closed 3mm tear top rear, lightly marked back panel

London businessman Rex Fortescue dies after drinking his morning tea, and curiously, the police discover a large amount of rye grains in his pocket. Then two more deaths occur, leaving the police mystified. When Miss Marple arrives to give information on one of the murder victims, she suggests to the police that the deaths may be connected to the nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence.”