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A review by booksare42
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
mysterious
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
Five Little Pigs is the January pick for Read Christie 2025. The January prompt is artist and the 2025 theme is Characters and Careers. Five Little Pigs is also a reread for me, but I’m glad I reread it because I enjoyed it more the second time around.
The set up of Five Little Pigs is what makes this Poirot mystery standout. The crime that Poirot has been hired to investigate happened sixteen years ago. He talks to the five people who were present and uses his little grey cells to see if he can untangle the truth. Poirot finds that these people fit perfectly into the five little pigs nursery rhyme, which comes up a lot in the story.
I liked how each of the people who were interviewed remembered things just a little bit differently. They all had different moments that stood out to them, different ways of interpreting what they saw, and different biases. I also liked that all five characters had something that they were hiding and how Poirot called them out on it.
Five Little Pigs has a lot of Poirot in it, which is something I love. Poirot is one of my favourite fictional characters and he was fun in this book. I loved how he got the different people to open up to him about what happened when Mr. Crale died.
There were some moments in Five Little Pigs that were a bit repetitive since Poirot was asking five people to recount the same stretch of time. I didn’t mind this though because I liked seeing the different perspectives.
Overall, Five Little Pigs is a very enjoyable mystery. It was clever and reminded me how much I love Poirot. I enjoyed trying to piece the mystery together and trying to figure out the truth.
The set up of Five Little Pigs is what makes this Poirot mystery standout. The crime that Poirot has been hired to investigate happened sixteen years ago. He talks to the five people who were present and uses his little grey cells to see if he can untangle the truth. Poirot finds that these people fit perfectly into the five little pigs nursery rhyme, which comes up a lot in the story.
I liked how each of the people who were interviewed remembered things just a little bit differently. They all had different moments that stood out to them, different ways of interpreting what they saw, and different biases. I also liked that all five characters had something that they were hiding and how Poirot called them out on it.
Five Little Pigs has a lot of Poirot in it, which is something I love. Poirot is one of my favourite fictional characters and he was fun in this book. I loved how he got the different people to open up to him about what happened when Mr. Crale died.
There were some moments in Five Little Pigs that were a bit repetitive since Poirot was asking five people to recount the same stretch of time. I didn’t mind this though because I liked seeing the different perspectives.
Overall, Five Little Pigs is a very enjoyable mystery. It was clever and reminded me how much I love Poirot. I enjoyed trying to piece the mystery together and trying to figure out the truth.