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Five Little Pigs
Five Little Pigs is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 under the title of Murder in Retrospect and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943 although some sources state that publication occurred in November 1942. The UK first edition carries a copyright date of 1942 and retailed at eight shillings while the US edition was priced at $2.00.
The book features Hercule Poirot. "Five Little Pigs" is
- Detective Sergeant Fletcher, assisting Craddock
- Constable Legg
- Sir Henry Clithering, retired commissioner of Scotland Yard, old friend of Miss Marple
References to other works.
Edmund Swettenham announces to have written "a roaring farce in three acts" titled "Elephants Do Forget". Agatha Christie later wrote a novel named "Elephants Can Remember" featuring Hercule Poirot. "Scherz" was the name of the Swiss publisher (Scherz Verlag) that published "Five Little Pigs" in 1944 in German.
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