#five little pigs

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs (1942)

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[thefugitivesaint]

'Five Little Pigs, ''Little Wide Awake'', 1880 Source

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[nocontextpoirot]

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[thelastofthebookworms]

If you like taking polls, I also have 11 polls or so about Gaiman's characters, a few polls on Austen's stuff and more on Shakespeare, gothic works and comics (again, see my 'polls' tag).

Maybe I'll do other polls with other Christies too, mention your favorites if they're not here.

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[flowercrown-hobbit]

Something about this vintage edition of five little pigs makes me smile. Maybe the huge floating head Poirot.

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[aidansplaguewind]

Aidan as Amyas Crale

Agatha Christie's Poirot, "Five Little Pigs" (2003)

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[therealvinelle]

Off-topic: Five Little Pigs, or: sometimes it's exactly what it looks like

One of my all-time favorite Agatha Christie is one where the murder occurred many years ago, and the story is told by five people who remember the days leading up to it.

Amyas Crale, a wealthy and successful painter as well as a shameless womanizer had brought his newest catch, an eighteen-year-old girl named Elsa Greer, to paint her at his residence. His wife raged against this. Miss Greer tells Mrs. Crale and family friends who were present that Crale is leaving his wife for her, shortly after this an argument between Mr. and Mrs. Crale where Mrs. Crale concludes that her husband is a very cruel man is overheard by several people. Greer, who heard the entire argument, says that Crale had confirmed to his wife he really was leaving her. Later that day, Crale asks Mrs. Crale to bring him a beer. She does, only the beer is poisoned, and Crale dies.

The murderer is presumed to be Mrs. Crale, and her motive was jealousy. Mrs. Crale, believing for reasons I won't get into that her younger sister had done it, doesn't fight the verdict and dies in prison.

Seemingly straightforward, and even when Mrs. Crale's guilt is called into question many years later the above facts aren't called into question. Mr. Crale was leaving his wife for Miss Greer, their marriage was in a crisis, these things we know and if we want to know who killed Mr. Crale we must search for the true murder within these confines.

Except, look at the story above and think about what this story might be, if there hadn't been a murder.

Married man who takes mistresses has a new, very young mistress. At eighteen, she thinks their love is epic and he's going to leave his wife for her. His wife is furious with him and thinks he's a sadistic bastard. They have a blazing row about it, then a few hours later the husband is pleasantly asking his wife to bring him a beer, which she does.

Looking at it this way, at only the things we have confirmed did happen and ignoring everything we were told by people who might be wrong or else motivated to lie, namely Elsa Greer's claim they were in love and she heard Amycus Crale tell his wife as much, it's no longer the same story.

Five Little Pigs is one of my favorite Christie novels because you have to be a heretic to find the murderer. You must distrust everything, and find that sometimes it's exactly what it looks like, you just had to peel away a few layers to get there.

All of this to make a point about Tom Riddle.

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[my-52-weeks-with-christie]

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[herculepoirotfanclub]

The Five Little Pigs adaptation truly has it all

✅ sad gay people

✅ THE most musical score 

And the weirdest ensemble cast I have ever seen??

✅ teenage actress who has married elon musk TWICE and asked him to buy twitter 

✅ actress of the adult version of the teen character who is married to queen elizabeth's cousin's son 

✅ the most beautiful american actress i have ever seen in a british show and who apparently had prosthetic legs the entire time how did she afford such nice legs

✅ the sad gay is maggie smith's son

#Five Little Pigs #agatha christie's poirot #seriously learning all this was fucking insane

[mzannthropy]

Forget everything I said before, Five Little Pigs is the best Agatha Christie book.

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[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Poirot Aesthetics: Five Little Pigs (S9Ep1)

"What do most people mean when they say that? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful -- yes, and cruel! And one thing more-youth is vulnerable."

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[i-put-the-ass-into-sass]

The man who painted what? Oh

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[nocontextpoirot]

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[hentaitiddy666]

This episode is also responsible for my obsession with Rachael Stirling

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[dweemeister]

October 10, 2022

By Deborah Netburn

(Los Angeles Times) — At first glance, Kemper Donovan’s backyard bungalow appears perfectly normal for this Santa Monica neighborhood, but a few clues suggest otherwise.A map of the English county of Devon. A copy of “The Poisoner’s Handbook.”

A professional-looking microphone perched on a wooden desk. And then there’s the enormous portrait of Agatha Christie hanging next to the guest bed.

If you use your little gray cells — as Christie’s fictional detective Hercule Poirot liked to say — you might deduce that this is where Donovan, 43, records the long-running podcast “All About Agatha.” In it, he and co-host Catherine Brobeck set out to read and rank all of Christie’s 66 mystery novels, and discuss them in exhaustive detail.

For six years, thousands of Agatha Christie enthusiasts across the globe have downloaded the podcast for what one listener described as a “joyfully geeky” take on the Queen of Crime’s expansive canon. In addition to the mystery novels, Christie penned 14 short story collections, two memoirs, more than 20 plays and six non-mystery novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

Donovan and Brobeck discussed all of it with glee. As “Agathologists,” they lectured at the University of Cambridge on the collective catharsis of the denouement (when the detective gathers everyone in the drawing room to reveal the killer), gave media interviews on the steady stream of new Christie adaptations, and became beloved pillars of the close-knit community of devout Christie fans and scholars.

Today, the podcast averages just under 100,000 downloads a month with most of its listeners in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany and Scandinavia.

The co-hosts frequently disagreed. Donovan was a die-hard Miss Marple fan, Brobeck was Poirot all the way. You could almost hear Brobeck’s eyes roll whenever Donovan attempted a phrase in French, or read, once again, from Christie’s autobiography. But even when they argued, they made each other laugh.

Then, suddenly and tragically, Brobeck died last November, just days after her 37th birthday, from a previously undetected genetic disorder. Hundreds of listeners reached out to Donovan to express their shock and grief. Many felt they had lost a friend.

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