"I don't need to bend down and count the footprints, collect the cigarette butts and examine the crumpled grass. I just need to sit in my chair and think."
Fifteen years ago, the beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of her husband's murder. Now her daughter entrusts Poirot with restoring her memory. There were still five suspects and the more Poirot thinks about it, the more that children's song about the five little pigs comes back to his mind - one went to the market, the other at home, locked up tight, and so on. One of the five little pigs, however, may have committed a murder and still remains unpunished. If so, no matter how many years have passed, no matter how much evidence has been destroyed, the brilliant detective will find it, putting his logic to work...
