Five Little Pigs

First published in 1943. This copy is undated but i date it around 1946.

The adverts inside are for The International Correspondence Schools, Bravingtons Jewellers and Cadbury

Murder in Retrospect

First published in the US in May 1942. In the UK was first published in January 1943 as Five Little Pigs. This copy was the first printing by Dell in 1977.

Hercule Poirot had never faced a problem as thorny as this one. He had to find out who savagely hates a man whose work the world loved. He had to prove the innocence of a woman already convinced of murder. He had to make sense of a collection of clues to point in every direction at once.
So fa, it was the kind of case Poirot was used to. But there was one added complication:
The crime had taken place sixteen years before - and to solve it Poirot had to go beyond the grave...

Five Little Pigs

Five Little Pigs was first published in 1943. It was first issued by Fontana Books in 1959. This copy was the third impression, published in August 1962.

After sixteen years everyone still believed Caroline Crale guilty of killing her husband. All except her daughter Carla Lemarchant. At her request Hercule Poirot seeks to discover the truth from the five witnesses at the trials. Five different pictures of Caroline Crale emerge, each one a vastly different woman. Which was the true Caroline Crale?

(this copy wrote Crale as Crane on the back cover, but I corrected it for writing on here!)