Rudge

In the short story How Does Your Garden Grow? Rudge was a fishmonger with a shop on the High Street at Charman's Green, Buckinghamshire. Miss Lemon found out that he had sold Mary Delafontaine a dozen and a half of oysters which were subsequently used to mask the taste of Strychnine used to poison Amelia Barrowby.

Rudge is not featured in the film adaptation of the story which was an episode in series 3 of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot drama series. There is a fishmonger in the episode but he did not have a speaking part nor was he credited or given a name. He remembered selling Mary Delafontaine the oysters because she had paid cash, a plot element not found in the original story.