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This is Hercule Poirot #25. It was also published under the title Five Little Pigs.
Major characters:
- Carla Lemarchant, Poirot's client
- Amyas Crale, a painter, her father (deceased prior to story)
- Caroline Crale, her mother (deceased prior to story)
- Angela Warren, her half-sister
- Cecilia Williams, Angela's childhood governess
- Philip Blake, stockbroker, was Amyas' best friend
- Meredith Blake, herb and potion hobbyist, Philips's brother
- Elsa Greer, Amyas' 'other woman'. Now Lady Dittisham
- Hercule Poirot
Synopsis: Carla Lemarchant visits Hercule Poirot to ask him to investigate a twenty-year old murder. Her father, painter Amyas Crale, had been poisoned. Her mother, Caroline Crale, was convicted on circumstantial evidence. The motive was jealousy: Amyas was going to divorce her to marry young Elsa Greer (after several marriages, now Lady Dittisham). Caroline died in prison.
Carla is convinced her mother was innocent. She wishes her name cleared so that she can marry without her fiancé forever thinking her guilty.
Poirot reviews the cold case by interviewing the principals. He finds the poison, a hemlock concoction, had been lifted from the hobby lab of Meredith Blake, brother of stockbroker Philip Blake, who had been Amyas' best friend.
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