A review by reading_under_covers
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

4.0

Sixteen years ago, Caroline Crale was said to have poisoned her husband (an artist!!) and sentenced to life in prison where she died soon after. All she left behind was a letter to her daughter claiming she was innocent - that daughter seeks out Hercule Poirot to find out if her mother was telling the truth. 

 

This book immediately felt true to the current times of true crime when armchair detectives come together to solve cold cases - though in this case, Poirot entrusts all of his possible suspects in truthfully telling their sides of the story of what unfolded that dark and terrible day - convenient, but we can brush that aside when it comes to this otherwise extremely cozy mystery 🥰 

 

This is one of those rare cases where I didn’t feel blindsided by the big reveal and I think the formatting of the way Poirot went about his detective work is the reason why 🕵️‍♀️ 

 

Poirot may have only been described as having an “egg-shaped head” once in this story, but I thought it was a really solid case to add to his dossier regardless!