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A womanising painter was poisoned 16 years ago by his wife, but now his daughter believes she was innocent all along…Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried ‘wee wee wee’ all the way home.It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can’t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind…

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Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the bestselling novelist in history. Her first novel, the Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0007274564
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Collins; Facsimile edition (20 June 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780007274567
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007274567
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 290 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.6 x 2.2 x 19 cm

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Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. Yet Agatha Christie was always a very private person, and though Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple became household names, the Queen of Crime was a complete enigma to all but her closest friends.

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Abhishek Mishra

One of the best Poirot Mysteries

Reviewed in India on 23 March 2021

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Hercule Poirot is asked by Carla to investigate the case of her mother, Caroline Crale, who was convicted of poisoning her husband 16 years ago. Caroline claimed her innocence in a letter to her daughter and now Hercule Poirot has to go through 5 witnesses, to solve this case.
Agatha Christie is brilliant. She describes same incident through the perspective of 5 different people but not once does it seem repetitive. And the plot twist is amazing, you'll think that you know who the murderer is, but you'll be wrong.
Agatha Christie weaves her novels like a puzzle and Hercule Poirot solves this puzzle piece by piece. The stories are not overly complex like some recent crime thrillers but they are the best.
This book is definitely in my top 5 Agatha Christie books.

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Nazarin

A riveting read, mon ami.

Reviewed in India on 28 January 2021

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Five Little Pigs is a thrilling murder mystery by Agatha Christie. I totally enjoyed the book, it was such a gripping one. The plot becomes more and more intense as the story progresses and the timorous statements of suspects will leave us perplexed. Christie won't let us stick to one prime suspect since each person under suspicion has a plausible reason to murder the dead person. The story was utterly misleading till the last chapter and my little grey cells terribly suffered!

Apart from the mystery theme, the book discusses human nature and the problems faced by women at some point. One of the things I found tedious was the multiple accounts of the same incident, that is; the murder of Mr. Crale. It was not at all unimaginative, but I felt a little insipid. Another thing is the uncertainty of justice at the end. Except from this, the book was engrossing and captivating and will keep you thrilled to the very end.

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Nivan Bagchi

Slow Burn

Reviewed in India on 24 April 2021

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Usually Agatha Christie's novels follow a strict formula. The first 90% of the book is just setting the thing up and collecting all clues. It's only in the last 10% that big reveals are made and things fall in place. This book is a perfect manifestation of 'this' very formula.

Due to the structure of the story itself, where Poirot reconstructs a cold case, there is one testimony after another for the first 90% of the book. You go through the same situation from different point of view again and again and again! The book gives you every reason to drop it off. The narrative just doesn't move forward at all. You don't know what you are even doing reading this thing and doubt if this is even worth your time.

But my oh my, the payoff delivers.

The final 10% throws at you one truth after another. Every single clue start making sense and you realize that Christie has yet again kept her promise of a brilliant "Poirot whoddunit" at his cerebral finest no less. Never doubt the Queen of Crime.

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One of the best Hercule Poirot work by Agatha Christie..

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" A case of murder is a case of murder whether it happened yesterday or sixteen years ago."

Carla receives a letter on her 21st birthday written by her mother ( Caroline Crale) that she is innocent; that she has not committed the murder of her husband ( Amyas Crale) for which she was convicted when Carla was 5 years old. Carla after receiving this letter is desperate to know the truth of the incident that happened sixteen years ago for her sanity. Desperation makes her approach Hercule Poirot. She asks him to unravel the truth of the murder; whatever it may be.

Hercule Poirot takes the case by seeing how determined and desperate Carla is.
While investigating the murder, Poirot comes to realize that the key to the investigation lies in the hands of five people: Philip Blake( Amyas Crale's best friend and now a stockbroker), Meredith Blake ( Philip's Brother), Angela Warren ( Caroline Crale's half-sister), Else Greer ( Amyas Crale's then-lover) and Miss Williams ( Angela's Governess).

But will these five people again want to relive the ordeal that they went through 16 years ago by talking to Poirot? If they do agree, will they remember everything that happened around the day of the murder? the most important question of all; Did Caroline Crale commit the murder or Was the letter just a desperate attempt to seek forgiveness from her daughter? To get the answer to all these questions, the book is to be read. Talking more about the storyline is too risky as I do not like to give spoilers. Also, why is the book named Five Little Pigs is something that you would find humorous while reading the book.

Why should you pick up this book by Christie?
1) Extremely fast-paced. There is no dull moment in the book.
2) Character build-up is very crisp. Each character has a story to tell which will make you keep guessing.
3) Multiple suspect angle.
4) The story will keep you guessing till the very end.
5) Hercule Poirot magic is there. He is in his finest form in the book. ( I know I make this fictional character sound like something real 😜 )
6) The story will satisfy the mystery gene genre in you.

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Melancholic Murder Mystery!

Reviewed in India on 28 March 2022

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Description: An emotional Christie with a dramatic, art-centered plot. The power of art plays a major role in the story. The story depicts how guilt, vengeance, and love can disguise their true nature and force us to do irrational deeds.

Plot: At the request of a woman named Lucy Crale, Poirot re-investigates a famous cold case.

Lucy is the daughter of Amyas Crale and Caroline Crale. Ten years ago, Amyas Crale was poisoned to death. His wife Caroline Crale was found guilty of his murder. Caroline suffered imprisonment and died in prison.

But Lucy is convinced that her mother is innocent and she wants to know the truth. Poirot reinvestigates the case for her. Poirot interviews Caroline's lawyer and the Five Witnesses (The Five Little Pigs). All the witnesses give Poirot different versions of the same story. But Poirot with his little grey cells analyzes the subtleties of their stories and discovers the truth.

Will 'the truth' disappoint Lucy?

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John M

A Hercules Poirot mystery with some repetition and an usually (for me) solvable mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2021

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Hercules Poirot reinvestigates a sixteen year old murder for which the wrong person may have been convicted. He re-interviews five suspects and asks them to both recall and write a description of the events surrounding the murder of an artist by coniine (hemlock extract) poisoning. His wife was convicted of murdering him but the suspects are two friends, his mistress, his wife's young sister and her governess.
Due to the structure of the book it is quite repetitive, as others have observed. There are clues along the way. Unusually for an Agatha Christie, I pretty much saw the solution to the mystery, although usually I'm flailing in the dark. There are a couple of unlikely events to make the plot work, but that's often par for the course too. This is often rated as one of Christie's better books, but although enjoyable, I'm not convinced.

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Intheamazone

The Sheer Brilliance of M. Hercule Poirot....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2017

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Brilliant. Five Little Pigs is, for me, an absolute page turner. It involves a crime from the past (a murder), 16 years ago, with M. Poirot being engaged to find 'the truth', despite a conviction having been made at the time. There were five other people/suspects in the vicinity at the time of the murder - and M. Poirot just cannot get that nursery rhyme of The Five Little Pigs out of his mind. The book is narrative based, with M. Poirot taking each suspect in turn in an effort to establish their own recollection of events and, perhaps more specifically, their perceptions as to the course of events. Some may say that this is rather an academic study (I wouldn't say that it was that alone) but it is done outstandingly well, it reads brilliantly. It is, indeed, a study in the psychology of people, a study of the human condition and, furthermore, in the outstanding ability of M. Poirot to read them, and read them well. He misses nothing and notices everything. The denouement is superb. In my opinion, this novel is not to be missed, it's right up there on my list of favourites. (Probably not the best starting point if new to AC as the format here is quite different to other works.) Highly, highly recommended.

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Masha F.

Another outstanding Poirot!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2021

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This book, Five Little Piggies, is fairly and very much dfferent to any other case M. Hercule Poirot has ever solved!
He has been set the task of resolving a case that happened 16 years ago! The court had supposedly found the murderess, Mrs Caroline Crale, wife of the victim, the well known painter Amyas Crale. But all is not well. You see, they had a daughter, now Miss Carla Lemarchant, who is protesting for her mother's innocence. Poirot must now travel in time to unravel the mysetry of the past…

Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book, as like the other Christie books, it has a huge plot twister, and just as you suspect someone, another person dors something strange! I couldn't pu this book down, and I hope you like it too!

(by Keira, an 11 year old)

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Audacious masterclass in storytelling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2020

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Hercule Poirot agrees to investigate a murder which happened 16 years ago. Audaciously, Agatha Christie gives us ten accounts of the event: five when Poirot questions each of those present at the time and five when the same characters provide their written recollections. I was engrossed. The subtle differences between the accounts are a masterclass in storytelling. For different reasons, more than one character is not telling the truth. The steady accumulation of clues and red herrings kept me page turning until Poirot’s trademark denouement throughout which we are directed and misdirected right up to the stunning revelation of the killer. Of the many Agatha Christie novels I’ve read, this is undoubtedly in my top two.

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SEM

All the way home...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2014

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I first read this Christie book a couple of years ago and although I enjoyed it, I didn't consider it as being up there with her best. Well after recently seeing the ITV adaptation starring the marvellous David Suchet I've just finished reading it again and have no problem greatly revising my initial opinion of the book. Now although there are actually a large number of changes made to Christie's story in the television production, some quite major, it is good viewing and re-kindled my interest in the story.

Back to the book now... In this mystery, Poirot is looking back at a crime from the past. He is employed by a young woman to look into the circumstances of the conviction of her mother for the poisoning of her artist father 16 years previously. The five pigs of the title are the five principals present at the time of the crime (two men and three women). Poirot privately assigns each of them a line from the "This little piggy" nursery rhyme and his work in solving the crime comes from the telling of the event from the POV of each of the five. Christie's writing is really clever and both she and Poirot are at the top of their game as they mesh the five versions of the same story together. At no time did anything feel repetitive as each of character's take on events took centre stage. You know of course that Poirot gets to the truth so your job is to marvel at how he actually pieces it together. Funnily enough for reasons I can't explain when I first read this book I didn't, as I usually do, try to work out which of the suspects was the guilty party I simply "observed" from over Poirot's shoulder so to speak.

It is a clever and worthy addition in the Christie catalogue and one I'm really glad that I revisited. PS it is worth giving the ITV adaptation a look too!

A 5* read.

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