Characters in Five Little Pigs

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 Chocolate Box, The Kidnapped Prime Minister: a Hercule Poirot Short Story #2, The Lemesurier Inheritance, The Affair at the Victory Ball, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim, The Plymouth Express: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Submarine Plans: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, The Cornish Mystery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story

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.