Book Review: Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

Re-read it on Friday.

This is not my favourite Christie, it's not even my favourite Poirot, but it's definitely a masterwork. This is where Poirot gets to show he doesn't need the cigarette ash and bits of cloth to solve a mystery as he re-investigates a murder that occured 16 years before. It's also a nice antidote to those mysteries where the detective is given more information than the reader. Here we are given exactly the same information as Poirot and allowed to try to figure out whodunit along with him.

It's not perfect, I found the characterisation of Philip Blake a bit flat, but I love all the little character details for Poirot, like when he tells himself off for thinking in nursery rhymes (again) and how he chooses to present himself to the five people present on the day of the murder.

Definitely worth a read.

( LibraryThing Suggestions )

Not unexpectedly, I have read several of these. :)

( LibraryThing Unsuggestions )

Rather more unexpectedly, I have read one of these. Hunter S. Thompson would be proud that he breaks algorithms :)