Five Little Pigs, written by Agatha Christie is a good read. This book, unlike the last book I read, is long enough that it gives the reader time to think about the crime and try to decide what could have happened. Also, all the clues are there for the reader to see and figure out what happened if they can. Although I didn't figure it out all the way, I figured out part of the mystery and could clearly see after it was explained how the detective Hercule Poirot came to the conclusion that he did.
This story is about a girl that comes to Hercule Poirot with a problem. Her mother was tried and convicted for the murder of her husband sixteen years previously. The girl at the time was too young to know what was going on, but had just recently been given a letter that her mother left for her in which her mother claims that she was innocent. The girl asks Hercule Poirot to find the truth, so he goes and talks to the five people who were at the place where the crime took place and asks them to remember what happened at that time.
New things pop up that weren't ever mentioned during the trial or even at the time of the trial, and the people involved start to really wonder if the lady really did kill her husband or not.
The one problem I had with this book was that the ending is kind of abrupt and left me wondering what happened after the end of the book.
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