Other editions of book Five Little Pigs

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Five Little Pigs, beloved detective Hercule Poirot races to solve a case from out of the past.Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other “little pigs” who could have done it: Philip Blake (the stockbroker), who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist), who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcée), who had her roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess), who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister), who cried all the way home.Sixteen years later, Caroline’s daughter is determined to prove her mother’s innocence, and Poirot just can’t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind.

Scarce Grosset & Dunlap edition in clean original dust jacket. Clean turquoise cloth boards with crisp black lettering on spine. No fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Previous owner inscription neatly penned on front free endpaper. 234 pages. Illustrated jacket has very light edge wear, a few short closed edge tears, faint water stain on rear panel. A Hercule Poirot mystery by the mistress of crime. The trail was cold. Sixteen years previously a woman had been sentenced to life imprisonment for poisoning her husband. Soon after her trial, she died. It was her daughter, armed with new evidence and certain of her mother's innocence, who sixteen years later convinced M. Poirot that the guilty person had gone unpunished.