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Dec 14, 2003 · Five Little Pigs: Directed by Paul Unwin. With David Suchet, Rachael Stirling, Aidan Gillen, Toby Stephens. Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
- (4.1K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Paul Unwin
- 2003-12-14
Plot summary. Sixteen years after Caroline Crale was convicted for the murder of her husband Amyas, her twenty-one-year-old daughter Carla Lemarchant asks Hercule Poirot to reinvestigate the case, after she was given a letter from her late mother claiming she was innocent, which Carla believes to be true.
- Agatha Christie
- 1942
More about this story. First published as a novel in the US in 1942, under the title Murder in Retrospect, the story shows Christie’s fascination with memory and time. Poirot is asked by a young woman to solve the mystery of her father’s murder, to clear her deceased mother’s name.
Five Little Pigs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie which was first serialised in the U.S. in Collier's Weekly from 20 Sep 1941. The book was first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943 although some sources...
Five Little Pigs is a tidy, little murder mystery with Poirot gleaning the truth of a cold case. A series of misunderstandings and presumptions lead to the incarceration of a wife for the murder of her husband, a well-known painter.
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- Paperback
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Feb 1, 2011 · by Agatha Christie (Author) 4.5 6,386 ratings. Book 24 of 39: Hercule Poirot series. See all formats and editions. In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, beloved detective Hercule Poirot races to solve a case from out of the past.
- Agatha Christie
"Five Little Pigs" revolves around the murder of a celebrated painter, Amyas Crale, who was poisoned with a deadly dose of coniine. Sixteen years after the crime, his wife, Caroline Crale, is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
