The Million Dollar Bond Robbery: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

By Agatha Christie

A young banker is suspected of stealing one million dollars in Liberty Bonds on a transatlantic journey to New York, and appeals to Hercule Poirot to clear his name. Poirot learns the identities of the three people who hold keys to the locked trunk, but it won't be as easy to identify the true thief…

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: May 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9780062210944

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 Million Dollar

Bond Robbery

A Hercule Poirot Short Story

by Agatha Christie

An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

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The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

‘The Million Dollar Bond Robbery’ was first published in The Sketch, 2 May 1923.

‘What a number of bond robberies there have been lately!’ I observed one morning, laying aside the newspaper. ‘Poirot, let us forsake the science of detection, and take to crime instead!’

‘You are on the – how do you say it? – get-rich-quick tack, eh, mon ami?’

‘Well, look at this last coup, the million dollars’ worth of Liberty Bonds which the London and Scottish Bank were sending to New York, and which disappeared in such a remarkable manner on board the Olympia.’

‘If it were not for mal de mer, and the difficulty of practising the so excellent method of Laverguier for a longer time than the few hours of crossing the Channel, I should delight to voyage myself on one of these big liners,’ murmured Poirot dreamily.

‘Yes, indeed,’

Reviews for The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

[vesper1931 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Miss Esmee Farquhar approaches Hercule Poirot to prove her fiancé, Philip Ridgeway, innocent of theft of a million dollars from his emplyer London and Scottish Bank.
An enjoyable short story.

[nadinec.keels · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

When a young banker is suspected of stealing one million dollars in Liberty Bonds on a transatlantic journey to New York, his fiancée seeks the help of Detective Hercule Poirot to clear the banker's name in The Million Dollar Bond Robbery by author Agatha Christie.When I picked up this classic short, I just needed a quick win to read about. The mystery is narrated by Poirot's frequent sidekick, Captain Arthur Hastings, whose jabs at his friend's liberal self-praise add a dash of comedy to this old-fashioned little read. Plus, it's refreshing when mysteries aren't always about murder.A clever and entertaining interlude, this was.