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    The Kidnapped Prime Minister
    The Kidnapped Prime Minister
    The Kidnapped Prime Minister
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    The Kidnapped Prime Minister

    By Agatha Christie

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    In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Kidnapped Prime Minister,” Poirot investigates the mysterious disappearance of the British Prime Minister during wartime. Apparently carjacked on the way to a peace conference, Poirot must overcome subterfuge and misdirection to solve the mystery. This short story originally appeared in the April 25, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateJan 1, 2019
    ISBN9781974935994
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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      The Kidnapped Prime Minister - Agatha Christie

      THE KIDNAPPED PRIME MINISTER

      A Hercule Poirot Mystery

      By

      AGATHA CHRISTIE

      This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, 2018

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      About Agatha Christie

      The Kidnapped Prime Minister

      About Agatha Christie

      Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. She is best known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short-story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature.

      The Kidnapped Prime Minister

      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 on hand. 

      I was attempting to discuss with him the sensational news of that day—no less than on

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