![]() ![]() ![]() Seemingly innocuous, English nursery rhymes often have a rather sinister origin and noone knew this better than Agatha Christie, who repeatedly used them as a motif most famously probably in 1939’s And Then There Were None (a/k/a Ten Little Indians), where the murderer kills his victims, one by one, in the fashion of the Ten Little Indians ditty.Ī Pocket Full of Rye is one of three Christie mysteries inspired by Sing a Song of Sixpence the others are the short stories Four and Twenty Blackbirds and Sing a Song of Sixpence, contained in the collections Three Blind Mice and The Witness For the Prosecution, respectively. ![]()
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