Five Little Pigs vs The Clocks: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, Investigation, England, English literature
Five Little Pigs
Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon an…
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The Clocks
Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind owner of…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Clocks highest: The Clocks 4.3 · Five Little Pigs 4.0.
- Five Little Pigs has the widest readership — 98380 ratings behind its score.
- The Clocks runs the darker storyline; Five Little Pigs stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Five Little Pigs | The Clocks | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (98380) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (239) | 3.5 (2) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (37) | 4.5 (109) |
Reception
| Five Little Pigs | The Clocks | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 98380 | 109 |
| Editions | 111 | 99 |
| Citations | 6 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 53417 | — |
| Reading it now | 3575 | — |
| Written reviews | 8357 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 5875 | 2302 |
| Pages | 272 | 248 |