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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1942
- Editions
- 110
- Subjects
- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Mystery, Large type books, Murder
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Key facts
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Cover artist
- Not known
- Language
- English
- Series
- Hercule Poirot
- Genre
- Crime novel
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Publication date
- May 1942
- Publication place
- United Kingdom, United States
- Media type
- Print (hardback & paperback)
- Pages
- 234 (first edition, hardback)
- Isbn
- 0-00-616372-6
- Preceded by
- Evil Under the Sun
- Followed by
- The Hollow
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Encyclopedic overview
Five Little Pigs is a mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 under the title Murder in Retrospect and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943 (although some sources state that publication was in November 1942). The UK first edition carries a copyright date of 1942 and retailed at eight shillings while the US edition was priced at $2.00.
In the book, detective Hercule Poirot investigates five people about a murder committed sixteen years earlier. Caroline Crale died in prison after being convicted of murdering her husband, Amyas Crale, by poisoning him. In her final letter from prison, she claims to be innocent of the murder. Her daughter Carla Lemarchant asks Poirot to investigate this cold case, based on the memories of the people closest to the couple.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Five Little Pigs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.