Five Little Pigs, Agatha Christie
When is a case too cold to find new clues? Carla Crale is hoping that even though it has been 16 long years since her mother, Caroline, was convicted of murdering her father that there is still some shred of evidence that can clear her mother's name.
Amyas Crale was poisoned. The famous painter was a notorious womanizer and his wife, Caroline, was naturally jealous. Could she have carried enough anger in her heart to have killed her husband? Certainly, there are no physical clues left to be found. No footprints nor bloody fingerprints to leave a telltale trail to the killer. Carla Crale turns to the one man that she believes can work miracles: Hercule Poirot.
Carla begs Poirot to find the real killer and save her mother the final days of her life in prison. Poirot begins by revisiting the 'players' in the case and asks each of them to look back in the past to relive their thoughts and feelings.
Each of the possible suspects who could have murdered Amyas Crale or even known intimate details about the crime and the victim offer up unique and very different accounts of the case. Has time simply warped their memories or do they have something deadly to hide? Only Poirot has the criminal genius to discover who is lying and who is telling the truth.
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