#168 in Crime & mystery
Five Little Pigs
- 234
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Among Agatha Christie’s Poirot novels, “Five Little Pigs” belongs with the best, and it goes about its murder a little differently from the rest. The story itself is what earns it that place. It is a short book, under 250 pages, first published in 1942. Readers who think they know how a Christie mystery runs have good reason to try this one.
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About the book
Five Little Pigs is a mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 under the title Murder in Retrospect and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943. The UK first edition carries a copyright date of 1942 and retailed at eight shillings while the US edition was priced at $2.00.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 279 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 65% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 19 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 260 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is Five Little Pigs?
It has 234 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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