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A review by edlib
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
5.0
I loved the unusual pace of this story. “The Why” is the crucial point and human nature the tipping point.
A famous painter having yet another affair is murdered and all the evidence says it was undeniably his long suffering wife. She has motive and confessed to the crime. Their five year old daughter is sent away and the case is closed.
Sixteen years later their daughter asks Poirot about her parents. He interviews everyone involved in the case. Then he gets the five witnesses to the crime to write their own account of what happened the day of the murder.
In the book we get the five written accounts, the same day, five times. And Poirot has found inaccuracies in these accounts. But, how could the wife be innocent? And why did she confess?
This is an outstanding mystery and so much fun. Christie knew how to write psychology in mysteries so that it is a clever knot to unravel, rather than a manufactured & manipulative trick.
A famous painter having yet another affair is murdered and all the evidence says it was undeniably his long suffering wife. She has motive and confessed to the crime. Their five year old daughter is sent away and the case is closed.
Sixteen years later their daughter asks Poirot about her parents. He interviews everyone involved in the case. Then he gets the five witnesses to the crime to write their own account of what happened the day of the murder.
In the book we get the five written accounts, the same day, five times. And Poirot has found inaccuracies in these accounts. But, how could the wife be innocent? And why did she confess?
This is an outstanding mystery and so much fun. Christie knew how to write psychology in mysteries so that it is a clever knot to unravel, rather than a manufactured & manipulative trick.