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Oh wow! Guess what I bought a copy of? : ))This book! Look forward to reading this. I have seen a televised version of it, but have never read it. Cool!
It is quite a good one, some interesting characters. I found both murderer and motive a bit too obvious though.
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Just finished a book for another book group, so will report back next week.
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I'm a couple of chapters in. I have a small hardback 2008, orange cover with pigs on it, Crime Club edition. The story is split into three books. I'm more than half way through the first book.
It is short, mine 192 pages. It is good so far. The headings in the first book incorporate the nursery rhyme Five Little Pigs.
I don't know what these five pigs are doing to my mail men... But the order has been send to me and lost twice now! Haha hopefully I'll receive it soon
I really enjoyed this, read the Kindle and listened to the audiobook narrated by Hugh Fraser, my favorite! I didn’t remember reading this at all, so yet another new-to-me Poirot! These Poirot reads are a highlight of my monthly reading, I’m never disappointed, and read more carefully then I did the first time, many years ago. In this case, I continue to be amazed at women who stayed married to these outright philanderers - I know women rarely worked back then so often felt like they had no choice, and for some reason, gave extra freedom to artists. Sorry, never understood why the creative temperament somehow gave men license to be cheaters (or drunks, or drug users, or whatever...)
Anyway, it was a very interesting premise for an investigation, Poirot revisiting all the main characters in a very cold case after many years.
Jessica, so sorry, hope you get your book soon! Maybe got caught up in the holiday shipping deluge?
Susan in NC wrote: "I really enjoyed this, read the Kindle and listened to the audiobook narrated by Hugh Fraser, my favorite! I didn’t remember reading this at all, so yet another new-to-me Poirot! These Poirot reads..."I think there are plenty of men still with enough charisma to get away with affairs and have their wives put up with it. I have known wives who were in that situation in modern times. they’d rather have their husbands unfaithful than not have them at all. The girlfriends come and go, but as one wife I knew put it “He always comes back to me.” Also, a lot of women did work in past times, but weren’t necessarily keen to get divorced, Agatha Christie herself for instance was not at all happy about it.
Louise wrote: "Susan in NC wrote: "I really enjoyed this, read the Kindle and listened to the audiobook narrated by Hugh Fraser, my favorite! I didn’t remember reading this at all, so yet another new-to-me Poirot..."Wow, I don’t think I could put up with it, but you raise a good point - nobody really knows what goes on in a marriage except the two people in it.
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Oh no, Jessica, sounds like a job for a detective! Hope you get it soon.
Hopefully your book will come Jessica. Interesting points being made. The characters and how they are perceived by others in the story exposes what was expected of women and how women were seen. However, the women are not all doormats as such.
Angela is perceived in a particular way, yet she is a successful female who did inherit some income which enabled her to work. Caroline Crale is protective and nurturing but at times has a temper and would stand up to her husband. The other women in his life were passing fancies, so he goes back to Caroline. Getting the painting finished was more his occupation with Elsa. She is young and immature. What is she offering this egotistical male? His ego and standing as a male artist is what is exposed publicly and privately, but Caroline, he has known her for a long time. She is his constant.
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Yes seems like every other series on the TV is about cold cases
Interesting comments here! My book arrived yesterday (should probably have prepared by ordering next month's book in the meantime... Will do that right away) and it's in my bag to start today or tomorrow! I first want to finish dalgliesh, but I'm looking forward to starting this Poirot soon :-)
Page 21 A jingle ran through Poirot's head. He repressed it. He must NOT always be thinking about nursery rhymes. It seemed an obsession wifh him lately. <\i>Almost feels like Agatha Christie is talking to herself here!
I am really enjoying this one! So different in style than all the others. Still makes a very good puzzle for the Grey cells. I don't think I read or saw this story before... Very intriguing.
I think it was my first reading, also - if I read it before I don’t remember it, but very much enjoyed it!
My copy was titled Murder in Retrospect, that I got specifically for the Dell mapback version. I believe this was the American title, which I prefer over the nursery rhyme reference. Most of her books of this variety have weak links in terms of successfully connecting the rhyme to the story/characters, so I could really do without. But it was a solid mystery nonetheless, and is best served by a close reading. I'm also going to listen to the Hugh Fraser audiobook, and a BBC full cast dramatization.
Five Little Pigs is unusual in the way that the same events are retold from the viewpoints of five people present on the day of the murder sixteen years earlier.
I do believe this story is completely new to me! Enjoy :-)