Characters in Five Little Pigs

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Works almost entirely through psychology and testimony rather than physical evidence, reading character to reconstruct a crime no longer traceable.

  Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, Mystery of the Blue Train, Black Coffee, Peril at End House, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder on the Orient Express

• Carla Lemarchant

  Driven by a letter in which her late mother proclaims her innocence; wants the truth as much for her own future as for her mother's name.

• Caroline Crale

  Maintained a strange passivity at trial that read as guilt; her motives and self-restraint are central to the puzzle.

• Amyas Crale

  A gifted, self-absorbed artist whose pursuit of his work and of a young model strained his marriage to breaking point.

• Philip Blake

  Recalls events with firm conviction, but his certainty conceals feelings he has never fully examined.

• Meredith Blake

  His home laboratory was the source of the poison, a fact that has weighed on him for sixteen years.

• Elsa Greer

  Once openly intended to take Amyas for herself; now married into wealth yet curiously hollowed by the affair's end.

• Cecilia Williams

  Fiercely principled and observant, devoted to the family's children and unsparing in her moral judgements.

• Angela Warren

  A child at the time, marked by an old injury; her account is shaped by a sister's love and a child's partial view.