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Five Little Pigs: Directed by Paul Unwin. With David Suchet, Rachael Stirling, Aidan Gillen, Toby Stephens. Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
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Sixteen years after Caroline Crale was convicted for the murder of her husband Amyas, her twenty-one-year-old daughter Carla Lemarchant asks Hercule Poirot to reinvestigate the case, after she was given a letter from her late mother claiming she was innocent, which Carla believes to be true. Poirot agrees to her request and establishes that on the ...
Carla Lemarchant: the daughter of Caroline and Amyas Crale; also born Caroline Crale, she was aged 5 when her father was murdered at their home, Alderbury.John Rattery: fiancé of Carla.Amyas Crale: painter by profession and a man who liked his paintings and mistresses, but loved his wife most. He was murdered 16 years before the story opens.Author and critic Maurice Willson Disher's review in The Times Literary Supplementof 16 January 1943 concluded, "No crime enthusiast will object that the story of how the painter died has to be told many times, for this, even if it creates an interest which is more problem than plot, demonstrates the author's uncanny skill. The answer to the riddle...
The novel's title is from the nursery rhyme This Little Piggy, which is used by Poirot to organise his thoughts regarding the investigation. Each of the five little pigs mentioned in the nursery rhyme is used as a title for a chapter in the book, corresponding to the five suspects. Agatha Christie used this style of title in other novels, including...
1960 play
In 1960, Christie adapted the book into a play, Go Back for Murder, but edited Poirot out of the story. His function in the story is filled by a young lawyer, Justin Fogg, son of the lawyer who led Caroline Crale's defence. During the course of the play, it is revealed that Carla's fiancé is an obnoxious American who is strongly against her revisiting the case, and in the end, she leaves him for Fogg. Go Back for Murder previewed in Edinburgh, Scotland. It later came to London's Duchess Theat...
Television
1. 2003: Five Little Pigs – Episode 1, Series 9, of Agatha Christie's Poirot, starring David Suchetas Poirot. There were many changes to the story. Caroline was executed, instead of being sentenced to life in prison and then dying a year later. Philip has a romantic infatuation with Amyas, rather than Caroline, the root of his dislike for Caroline. Carla's name was changed to Lucy and she has no fiancé. She does not fear she has hereditary criminal tendencies; she merely wishes to prove her m...
Radio
Five Little Pigs was adapted for radio and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994, featuring John Moffattas Poirot.
1942, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), May 1942, Hardback, 234 pp1943, Collins Crime Club (London), January 1943, Hardback, 192 pp1944, Alfred Scherz Publishers (Berne), Paperback, 239 pp1948, Dell Books, Paperback, 192 pp (Dell number 257 [mapback])Five Little Pigs (2003) at IMDb- Agatha Christie
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Five Little Pigs is the first episode of the ninth season of the ITV television series Agatha Christie's Poirot, first aired in the UK 14 December 2003. It is an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. The script was written by Kevin Elyot, and the episode was directed by Paul Unwin .
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Agatha Christie's Poirot: Five Little Pigs Preview. Fourteen years after her mother, Caroline Crale, was hanged for the murder of her artist father Amyas Crale, Lucy Crale asks Hercule...
Hercule Poirot is employed by a young woman named Lucy Crale in order to re-investigate a case that the police closed almost two decades ago. When Lucy was a little girl, her father Amyas Crale, a painter, was murdered by poison and her mother, Caroline, was later found guilty of the crime.
Five Little Pigs. Hercule Poirot. ⌸ Novel. 1942.
