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书名：Five Little Pigs五只小猪/啤酒谋杀案
作者：Agatha Christie阿加莎?克里斯蒂
出版社名称：Harper
出版时间：2015
语种：?英文
ISBN：9780007120734
商品尺寸：11.2?x1.8?x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：278
Five Little Pigs《五只小猪》，又译作《啤酒谋杀案》。这是侦探小说女王阿加莎?克里斯蒂以大侦探赫尔克里·波洛（Hercule Poirot）为主角的小说之一。本书于1941年刊载于美国报刊，题为“Murder in Retrospect”。
推荐理由：
1.阿加莎高水准之作，感伤的故事与意外的结局相结合，结构精巧绝伦，推理迷；
2.?英文原版，用词简单，阅读难度不大，适合入门；
3.?书本体积小巧，方便随身携带，印刷清晰，纸质护眼。
Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
Review
“Despite only five suspects, Mrs Christie as usual puts a ring through the reader’s nose and leads him to one of her smashing last-minute showdowns.”—Observer
“The answer to the riddle is brilliant.”—Times Literary Supplement
“A brilliant piece of detective fiction, in which character plays an important part.”—Daily Telegraph
“Straightforward bamboozling from start to finish.”—New Statesman
“As usual, Mrs Christie hoaxes us with a double twist at the denouement, and provides excellent entertainment.”?—Punch
“Agatha Christie never fails us, and her Five Little Pigs presents a very pretty problem for the ingenious reader.”—Manchester Guardian
漂亮的卡罗琳·克雷尔被判毒杀丈夫有罪。但是还有另外五个嫌颖人：证券经纪人菲利普·布莱克；业余药划师梅雷迪斯·布莱克；三闪离婚的艾尔莎·格里尔；敬业的女家庭教师塞西莉亚·威廉斯；容貌受损的安吉拉·沃伦。
十六年过去了，波洛却不会忘记这件事……
Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried ‘wee wee wee’ all the way home.
It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can’t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind…
Agatha Christie阿加莎·克里斯蒂，英国侦探小说家、剧作家，三大推理文学宗师之一，被誉为“推理女王”。她笔下的Hercule Poirot（赫尔克里·波洛）是继福尔摩斯之后深受读者欢迎的大侦探。她一生创作了80部侦探小说和短篇故事集，19部剧本，以及6部以玛丽·维斯特麦考特为笔名出版的小说，销量突破20亿册，只有《圣经》与莎士比亚的著作在她之上。
Agatha Christie?was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She was born in Torquay in 1890 and became the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel,The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, the most popular detective since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime and her works have sold over two billion copies?—?80 crime books, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
“Do I remember the Crale case?” asked Sir Montague Depleach. “Certainly I do. Remember it very well. Most attractive woman. But unbalanced, of course. No self-control.”
He glanced sideways at Poirot.
“What makes you ask me about it?”
“I am interested.”
“Not really tactful of you, my dear man,” said Depleach, showing his teeth in his sudden famous “wolf’s smile,” which had been reputed to have such a terrifying effect upon witnesses. “Not one of my successes, you know. I didn’t get her off.”
“I know that.”
Sir Montague shrugged his shoulders. He said:
“Of course I hadn’t quite as much experience then as I have now. All the same I think I did all that could humanly be done. One can’t do much without cooperation. We did get it commuted to penal servitude. Provocation, you know. Lots of respectable wives and mothers got up a petition. There was a lot of sympathy for her.”
He leaned back stretching out his long legs. His face took on a judicial, appraising look.
“If she’d shot him, you know, or even knifed him—I’d have gone all out for manslaughter. But poison—no, you can’t play tricks with that. It’s tricky—very tricky.”
“What was the defence?” asked Hercule Poirot.
He knew because he had already read the newspaper files, but he saw no harm in playing the complete ignorant to Sir Montague.
“Oh, suicide. Only thing you could go for. But it didn’t go down well. Crale simply wasn’t that kind of man! You never met him, I suppose? No? Well, he was a great blustering, vivid sort of chap. Great womanizer, beer drinker—all the rest of it. Went in for the lusts of the flesh and enjoyed them. You can’t persuade a jury that a man like that is going to sit down and quietly do away with himself. It just doesn’t fit. No, I was afraid I was up against a losing proposition from the first. And she wouldn’t play up! I knew we’d lost as soon as she went into the box. No fight in her at all. But there it is—if you don’t put your client into the box, the jury draw their own conclusions.”
