![]() ![]() This is one of the last Christie novels I read, for some reason - probably because it was never on the shelf when I was checking them out at the library - and I still remember turning the last page and marveling at how it all came together. ![]() ![]() In 2013 The Big Four was adapted as part of the final series of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, which starred David Suchet and featured the return of Hastings (Hugh Fraser), Chief Inspector. It was translated and published in English in the UK in 2007. It’s pure pleasure to watch Poirot pick his way through the testimony and solve the crime. The story became a graphic novel in 2006, illustrated by Alain Paillou, and published in France. It will be very instructive!”Īnd it is, of course. “That,” says Poirot, “is what I am counting upon. And after all this time! Why, you’ll hear five accounts of five separate murders!” The five other people who were in the house that day are still alive, and as Poirot investigates each of them, he can’t get the nursery rhyme “Five Little Pigs” out of his head - you know, the one that starts “This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home.”Ī local policeman, exasperated with Poirot’s technique, tells him, “Don’t you grasp the elementary fact? No two people remember a thing in the same order anyway. In a dramatic finale to the long-running ITV series, the Belgian detective played for 25 years by. More than a decade after Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband and died in prison, her daughter, Carla - never convinced of her mother’s guilt - asks Poirot to look into the case. But in his final TV appearance last night, the killer turned out to be Hercule Poirot himself. “Five Little Pigs,” I think, which is Poirot’s most cerebral outing. ![]()
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