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Five Little Pigs

Agatha Christie

Start date: May 1, 2023

Finish date: May 31, 2023

Discussion: Monthly reads: 2024

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Monthly reads: 2024

December 2024: Cat Among the Pigeons
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November 2024: Ordeal by Innocence
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Mar 01, 2020 Tania rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, agatha-christie

4.5.

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Aug 07, 2020 Stephanie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, kindle, favorites, mystery, classics, audiobooks-2023

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 ...more

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Feb 01, 2020 Tara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: vintage-paperbacks, owned, agatha-christie, poirot-buddy-read-2020, dell-mapback

Murder in Retrospect, the American title for Five Little Pigs, is the story of a murder, ostensibly solved, adjudicated, and resolved 16 years ago. But then our old friend Poirot appears on the scene, asked by the convicted murderer's daughter to review the case, and tell her whether or not her mother was truly guilty. You would think that it would be difficult to construct an interesting story from a case that is so very cold, especially in an age before the preservation of physical evidence an ...more

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Jan 07, 2021 Henrique Glasmeyer rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: agatha-christie

Certamente um dos Top 10 de Agatha Christie, tem como diferencial o fato de ser um “cold case”. Os personagens são muito bem construídos, a divisão das partes do livro é coerente, e o desfecho da trama é surpreendente. É uma leitura imperdível para os fãs de mistério e da Dama do Crime.

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Jul 20, 2024 Sharon rated it liked it · review of another edition

One of the first crime novels where I actually managed to guess the ending, hehe.
I was sure that it'd either be Elsa or Angela, but ofc it wasn't as straightforward as that.
Did feel a bit boring though towards the middle where they keep reiterating the facts of the case, ig this time Christie wanted us to see the thought process of Poirot as well.
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