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    The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
    The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
    The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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    The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Just as World War I is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped. It is down to Hercule Poirot to locate him before a crucial conference, to avert an international crisis.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9780062211040
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 4/5
      Hercule Poirot and Inspector Japp get together to solve the mystery of the Prime Minister. Poirot learns that the Prime Minister is shot, and later hears that it was not fatal, but he has been kidnapped. Putting his grey cells together with Inspector Japp he tries to solve the mystery and locate the Prime Minister before it’s too late.I like the mysteries without the murder. It’s good to know that Poirot isn’t just surrounded by dead bodies, he’s trying to stop there be murder too! In this case it’s the Prime Minister of England and as usual Poirot has it in hand.Poirot and Japp have chemistry together. Japp holds a certain reverence for Poirot and his detective skills and of course Poirot in his own conceited way loves this. Together they made for a fun mystery and I enjoyed this one.I listened on audio and I’m sure everyone is sick of me saying this but I love listening to Hugh Fraser and David Suchet together. I’m looking forward to listening to more of these short stories on audio.

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    The Kidnapped Prime Minister - Agatha Christie

    The Kidnapped Prime Minister

    A Hercule Poirot Short Story

    by Agatha Christie

    An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

    Contents

    Cover

    Title Page

    The Kidnapped Prime Minister

    About the Author

    Back Ads

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    The Kidnapped Prime Minister

    ‘The Kidnapped Prime Minister’ was first published in The Sketch, 25 April 1923.

    Now that war and the problems of war are things of the past, I think I may safely venture to reveal to the world the part which my friend Poirot played in a moment of national crisis. The secret has been well guarded. Not a whisper of it reached the Press. But, now that the need for secrecy has gone by, I feel it is only just that England should know the debt it owes to my quaint little friend, whose marvellous brain so ably averted a great catastrophe.

    One evening after dinner – I will not particularize the date; it suffices to say that it was at the time when ‘Peace by negotiation’ was the parrot-cry of England’s enemies – my friend and I were sitting in his rooms. After being invalided out of the Army I had been given a recruiting job, and it had become my custom to drop in on Poirot in the evenings after dinner and talk with him of any cases of interest that he might have had on hand.

    I was attempting to discuss with him the sensational news of the day – no less than an attempted assassination of Mr David MacAdam, England’s Prime Minister. The account in the papers had evidently been carefully censored. No details were given, save that the Prime Minister had had a marvellous escape, the bullet just grazing his cheek.

    I considered that our police must have been shamefully careless for such an outrage to be possible. I could well understand that the German agents in England would be willing to risk much for such an achievement. ‘Fighting Mac’, as his own party had nicknamed him, had strenuously and unequivocally combated the Pacifist influence which was becoming

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