Five Little Pigs

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Five Little Pigs is an Agatha Christie detective novel in which Hercule Poirot reopens a 16-year-old murder case by reexamining the conflicting testimonies of five key witnesses.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime fiction work
novel
adaptedInSeries Agatha Christie's Poirot NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Murder in Retrospect NERFINISHED
alternateTitleUsedIn United States NERFINISHED
author Agatha Christie NERFINISHED
basedOn nursery rhyme "This Little Piggy" NERFINISHED
centralCaseType murder
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Hercule Poirot NERFINISHED
featuresInvestigationMethod interviews and written accounts GENERATED
firstPublicationYear 1942
followedBy The Moving Finger NERFINISHED
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasAccusedCharacter Caroline Crale NERFINISHED
hasAdaptation television adaptation
hasMotiveInvestigation reassessment of past conviction
hasMurderVictim Amyas Crale NERFINISHED
language English
literaryForm prose fiction
literaryGenreMovement classic whodunit
literaryPeriod Golden Age of Detective Fiction NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Hercule Poirot NERFINISHED
mediaType print
narrativeDevice multiple conflicting testimonies
narrativeStructure retrospective investigation
notableFor use of differing perspectives on the same events
numberOfKeyWitnesses 5 GENERATED
originalTitle Five Little Pigs NERFINISHED
plotFocus reopening of a 16-year-old murder case
precededBy The Body in the Library NERFINISHED
protagonistAffiliation Belgian detective Hercule Poirot series
protagonistOccupation private detective
publicationCentury 20th century
publisher Collins Crime Club NERFINISHED
series Hercule Poirot novels NERFINISHED
settingCountry England
targetAudience adult readers
televisionAdaptationStar David Suchet NERFINISHED
theme justice after long delay
memory and reliability of testimony
timeGapBetweenCrimeAndInvestigation 16 years
toldThrough accounts of five witnesses
workOf Agatha Christie NERFINISHED

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Hercule Poirot appearsInWork Five Little Pigs
Go Back for Murder (stage) basedOn Five Little Pigs
Hercule Poirot series hasWork Five Little Pigs