It's good enough, not the best, but still a nice Christie book. A man is poisoned and in his pocket they find... guess what? Rye, yes. The title refers to this, yes.
The police investigates the whole family, but later there are other deaths. It'll be when a maid is murdered that Miss Marple will come knocking at the house door offering help, because the girl in question came from her village and even worked for her for some time. Luckily there's a good detective who understands right away that she's not a silly old lady but on the contrary she could actually help. And she does, of course.
At the end she presents him with her solution of the case, although without proof, then she goes home where she finds a letter that should have been arrived many days before but got delivered at the wrong house. The maid sent it asking for her advice, telling her the same story she had imagined, exactly like she told the detective, even adding a picture, which would work as proof, if needed. So now we know for sure that the murderer won't get away with it.
After reading it, Miss Marple goes through different kind of emotions: first sadness, for the poor girl that, who knows, maybe could have been saved if she had received the letter in time, then anger for the evil person that killed her after having manipulated her in doing what he wanted her to, and finally pride and satisfaction because he'll pay for what he did!
Ita: Polvere negli occhi
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