From the Bookshelf of Appointment With Agatha

Five Little Pigs
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May 1, 2023
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May 31, 2023
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December 2024: Cat Among the Pigeons
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November 2024: Ordeal by Innocence
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Wanda Pedersen
I think there was a sixth pig (and not a little one, either), namely Amyas Crale. The man was certainly no treasure, being a drinker and a womanizer. Plus, he took his wife absolutely for granted! Some people just ask to be killed, don't they?

Agatha Christie knew a thing or two about unfaithful first husbands, who suddenly announce that they must be free to marry a younger woman. Mind you, if her biographer reports truly, she was also quite tolerant of her second husband's straying as long as h
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Tania
Mar 01, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
4.5.
Stephanie
I thought about which Agatha Christie to read next after revisiting And Then There Were None and settled on Five Little Pigs. I did not know much about this one. What little I did know was from non-spoiler, high praised reviews on Bookstagram. So naturally, since it’s in our family’s Kindle library, I decided it would be my next mystery read.

I confess that I fell for the red herring near the end. It just seemed like the reasonable explanation despite my wish for it to be the character I found to
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Rebekah Giese Witherspoon
This is a cold case (the only Agatha Christie cold case mystery that I know of) in which Poirot investigates a murder that happened 16 years earlier. I love the psychology of this novel as well as the insight it gives into Hercule Poirot’s personality.

Each person had seen her differently. Montague Depleach had despised her as a defeatist—a quitter. To young Fogg she had represented Romance. Edmunds saw her simply as a “lady.” Mr. Jonathan had called her a stormy, turbulent creature. How would he
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Roseli Gomes
Boa Tarde Leitores queridos de AC e não leitores de AC - igualmente queridos!

Mais um livro que não pode deixar de ser lido, tá, eu já falei, é outra releitura, e esse o criminoso "tava" fresquinho na mente... escolhi a resenha da Thaís, pois ela cita o seriado de Poirot, que terminei esse ano também: são 62 histórias muito bem contadas, fiéis e com uma interpretação belíssima de David Suchet!
No meu blog vou postar um link que dá para assistir tudinho no conforto do seu lar!!
*****
Resenha Os Cinco
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Donna
Aug 25, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Daniela Sorgente
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BrokenTune
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Megan
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Shelves: audiobook
Linda Griffin
Jan 09, 2025 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: agatha-christie
Mary
Jun 04, 2023 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: mystery, classic, british
Melanie ⭐️
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Shelves: 1940s, audible
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James
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Daniela Sorgente
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