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Roselyn asked this question about Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25):

The book contains reference to Maugham's-The Moon and SixPence, how did Poirot know Angela was reading this?

Roger The references to "The Moon and Sixpence" (and to "translucent wave") are only to be found in the UK version of the book. In the US version, published…moreThe references to "The Moon and Sixpence" (and to "translucent wave") are only to be found in the UK version of the book. In the US version, published earlier in 1942 under the title "Murder in Retrospect", none of this appears and Poirot simply says he knows Angela has read "a life of the painter Gauguin". In both versions Philip Blake's narrative reports that on the day before Amyas' death Angela had shouted she hoped he would die of leprosy. I have no idea how these differences arose. The upshot is that in the US version the reference to Gauguin is almost entirely incomprehensible.(less)

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