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The Kidnapped Prime Minister (Hercule Poirot Short Story #2)
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Sep 19, 2022
bookshelves: agatha-christie, audio, hoopla, mystery, read-in-2022, read-in-a-different-collection, short-stories
You will never guess who gets kidnapped!
Ok, maybe you will.
David MacAdam, the Prime Minister of England, has been kidnapped and it's up to Hercule and Hastings to figure out whodunnit.
This one is kind of (to me) dull for such an exciting story. The PM is set to speak at an Allied conference to help put a stop to the German spies who are promoting pacificist propaganda. If he doesn't show up, England will lose a powerful voice in the war effort.
Keep in mind this was written about five years after WWI.
MacAdam disappears in France, and his car, driven by his also missing chauffeur/bodyguard is found on the side of the road. His personal secretary, chloroformed and gagged, was still in it.
Was the chauffeur in on the plot? Why did they leave the secretary? Why did someone make a half-assed attempt on the Prime Minister's life only days earlier?
And most importantly, can Poirot's little grey cells find this guy in time?
But of course!
Originally published in The Sketch magazine in 1923.
Read as part of the short story collection The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot.
Ok, maybe you will.
David MacAdam, the Prime Minister of England, has been kidnapped and it's up to Hercule and Hastings to figure out whodunnit.
This one is kind of (to me) dull for such an exciting story. The PM is set to speak at an Allied conference to help put a stop to the German spies who are promoting pacificist propaganda. If he doesn't show up, England will lose a powerful voice in the war effort.
Keep in mind this was written about five years after WWI.
MacAdam disappears in France, and his car, driven by his also missing chauffeur/bodyguard is found on the side of the road. His personal secretary, chloroformed and gagged, was still in it.
Was the chauffeur in on the plot? Why did they leave the secretary? Why did someone make a half-assed attempt on the Prime Minister's life only days earlier?
And most importantly, can Poirot's little grey cells find this guy in time?
But of course!
Originally published in The Sketch magazine in 1923.
Read as part of the short story collection The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot.
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Sep 19, 2022 03:14PM
Great review.
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Thanks! I'm SO CLOSE, Carmen! I can feel it...lol
Anne wrote: "Thanks! I'm SO CLOSE, Carmen! I can feel it...lol"That's great, Anne! :) Quite an accomplishment. I'm cheering for you.
Well, keep cheering because I just found a pile of her shorts that I don't have in any of the collections. WAH!
Terrific, you are on your way of accomplishing your dream, Anne! <3 <3
Where to BEGIN with THIS? The King of ENGLAND? No such title. The Prime Minister of ENGLAND? No such position. The ENGLISH Army and the ENGLISH NAVY? No such organisations! The correct word would be 'BRITISH': IE, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) I rreland. Talk about cultural insensitivity!
Do NONE of you commenting on here pick up on the fact that there is NO such position as 'Prime Minister of England'? Or are you all Americans, and so believe England=UK? Which it does NOT, let me tell you!
