is always a great pleasure for me to find the lady of the crime, that I work with for many years. My vision of Agatha Christie is not the same as before, when I devoured his books under the light of a lamp cycling (to prevent parental curfew.) If I have the pleasure of adolescent passion for books, I nevertheless acquired a small, very small experience makes me appreciate the novels of another way.
Five Little Pigs, which derives its name from a rhyme, is an almost bewildering modernity, despite the years that have elapsed, seems timeless. Here, it is far from serial killers. Hercule Poirot, our dapper Belgian detective with the incredible mustache, is charged by Carla Lemarchant to investigate an old crime of sixteen. The murder of his father, Amyas CRAL, which was charged his mother (Caroline). (Who was convicted and died in prison.) Having received his majority his legacy, and a letter from his mother, where she expressed her love and innocence, the young woman about to marry, would clarify this matter family, in order to build his own family. So here
good old Poirot plunged in the past.
The novel is cleverly cut, and it begins with five chapters relating the stories of "administrative" who are assigned to the case (police, lawyer, attorney ...), all with their point of view, different and subjective on the victim but also the alleged culprit, and the shutter of the story.
The trigger? Elsa Greer. One of the many mistresses of the victim. Young, rich, and resolutely determined to get married Amyas CRAL.
Then come five chapters on key characters of the plot. Philip Blake's best friend Amyas, who hated Caroline's brother Philip, Meredith, knight Carolina, Elsa Greer course, now Lady Caroline's half sister, Angela, and her governess Miss Williams.
Again, opinions differ, yet, apart from Angela, everyone seems convinced that Caroline has indeed killed her husband, sixteen years earlier.
Five other chapters follow, as through depositions of the main characters, who recount the events in their own way. Then comes the revelation. The denouement of the plot.
course I will not be revealed What about the innocence or not Caroline. But I found the reasoning of Poirot finely conceived and conducted as usual with this dear Belgian.
few small extracts, because Agatha Christie wrote very well, and we should not forget:
"- A predatory Juliet. Young, fierce, but horribly vulnerable! Building on everything one bold stroke. ... It seemed to have won until - at the last moment - death does his entrance. So the living, the ardent, joyful Elsa died also to leave a woman hungry for revenge, cold, hard, hating with all his might the one whose hand had committed the act.
His voice changed tone:
- My God, forgive me, I indulge in melodrama. It was a rough woman, who had a rough vision of life. A character unattractive, in my opinion. Youth delicate complexion, fiery and languorous ... If you remove this, what else does it? A poor girl who is looking for a new hero in flesh and bone to fill empty pedestals. " "What most people mean by these words? Poirot thought, shaking his head. So young. What does that mean? Innocent, appealing, defenseless? But it has nothing to do with it, youth! Youth is brutal, it has a formidable force, it is omnipotent. And it is ... yes, it is cruel! Yes, but it is also this, the youth: it is vulnerable. "
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