![]() ![]() She trained Gladys, don't you see, and feels responsible for the poor girl, who has no other family. It isn't until the housemaid Gladys winds up dead among the drying laundry that Miss Marple shows up to explain, among other things, the grains of rye that were found in the dead man's pockets. ![]() In "A Pocket Full of Rye," a rich and not particularly nice man is poisoned, and there is, of course, a country house full of suspects and, quickly, more victims. Stout of shoe and clear of eye, her Miss Marple is a much more intentional detective, less given than the original to couching her observations in self-deprecation but equally fond of knitting, eavesdropping and mining idle conversation for nuggets of vital information. Replacing Geraldine McEwan, the star of 12 previous "Marple" mysteries, is Julia McKenzie ("Cranford," "Notes on a Scandal"), a more solidly tweedy than feathery presence. It's a different Jane who kicks off the Marple run with "A Pocket Full of Rye" at 9 tonight on PBS. ![]()
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