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Five Little Pigs

Agatha Christie

  • 234 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1942
  • 111 editions
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1 About this book

Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon an unprecedented challenge, but soon fears that the case may be as cut and dried as it had first appeared.

  • Private investigators
  • Mystery
  • Murder
  • Mystery & detective, traditional
  • Mystery & detective, women sleuths
  • Investigation
  • False imprisonment
  • Mothers and daughters

2 About Agatha Christie

1890–1976

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel debut being The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920), Tommy and Tuppence (with the novel debut being The Secret…

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