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''Five Little Pigs'' is a 1942 mystery novel by [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]].▼
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| author = Agatha Christie
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| genre = Crime novel
| franchise = Hercule Poirot
| preceded by = Evil Under the Sun
| followed by = The Hollow
| publication date = May 1942
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▲'''''Five Little Pigs''''' is a 1942 mystery novel by [[
Sixteen years ago, Caroline Crale was convicted of the murder of her husband, the painter Amyas Crale. Their daughter approaches [[Hercule Poirot]] to investigate the case. Poirot visits the five people present at the time of the murder, and each of them gives [[Rashomon Style|a slightly different story]].
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: Subverted: several characters sided with Caroline Crale when she was convicted of murdering her husband Amyas, since he was having an affair with his model. However, {{spoiler|Poirot realizes that Amyas was never going to leave Caroline and only kept Elsa around to finish the painting. Elsa killed him and framed Caroline when she learned that he had always intended to stay with his wife.}}
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Caroline Crayle believed in this, at least according to her daughter. The reason that Carla believes her mother is innocent is because Caroline sent her a letter saying so, and Caroline never told her daughter comforting lies.
* [[Clear Their Name]]: The daughter wants to prove that her mother was innocent.
* [[Death
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Miss Williams.
* {{spoiler|[[Gayngst]]: Philip Blake in the [[Poirot]] adaption}}
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: The five suspects matches the five little pigs in the nursery rhyme ‘This Little Piggy’:
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This little piggy stayed at home. (Meredith Blake)
This little piggy had roast beef. (Elsa Greer)
This little piggy had none. (Cecilia Williams)
And this little piggy went "Wee! Wee! Wee!" all the way home. (Angela Warren)” }}
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Played straight and subverted. Poirot admits to the killer he has no physical evidence to prove {{spoiler|her}} guilt and {{spoiler|she}} won't publically confess to it. However, {{spoiler|Elsa Greer has never been able to move on from the day she murdered the only man she ever loved, and lives a wealthy but utterly joyless and miserable life. [[Fate Worse Than Death|"I died that day."]]}}
* [[Late to
* [[Living Lie Detector]]: Miss Williams to a degree. When she was a governess, none of the kids even tried to lie to her, feeling that it'd be pointless. Poirot, at first, tells to other people that he's writing a book about the case, but he tells the truth to Miss Williams right away.
* [[Market-Based Title]]: It was originally published in the US as ''Murder in Retrospect''. Later publications restored the original British title.
* [[Rashomon Style]]
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Amyas Crale
* {{spoiler|[[
* [[Woman Scorned]]: {{spoiler|Subverted with Caroline, but played straight with Elsa}}
** Gender-flipped with {{spoiler|Philip Blake, who wanted to make Caroline look as black as possible at least partially because she rejected him.}}
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