A review by sharkybookshelf
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

4.0

Caroline Crale was convicted of killing her husband - sixteen years later and armed with a letter stating Caroline’s innocence, their daughter asks Poirot to revisit the case…

I was delighted that this, the halfway point of my SharkyReadsChritie project, happened to be a Poirot. Whilst it might not be his most spectacular case, the format is so very Poirot - since the murder took place many years prior, there’s no possibility of unearthing new physical evidence. It’s a thought puzzle entirely based on the five other suspects’ own accounts of what they remember - it’s about using those Little Grey Cells.

It’s cleverly written, since it’s all in the details of who said (and didn’t say) what in their account. I did deduce whodunnit, but not really how, and I very much enjoyed the thought puzzle format of it.

A clever, closed circle murder mystery that’s all about sifting through witness accounts rather than hard evidence.