I'm Thanks for joining us, everyone at 1001 classic short stories and tales.

We have a great story for you here today, the million-dollar bond robbery by Agatha Christie.

The Guinness Book of World Records lists England's own Agatha Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time.

And if you ask anyone who reads, and especially anyone who enjoys a great mystery, they will probably agree.

I'll leave her bio to your own discovery,

but I will mention that she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 large short story collections.

And the reason we're able to bring her stories to you now is because her first ones just hit

the public domain this year. It has taken me a while to get in gear as I've been studying

videos, trying to get the feeling for how her stories are portrayed, and just how her main

detective character thinks, his name being Urquil Poirot. And yes, I checked, and that's how

his name is usually pronounced. Poirot is an English-speaking gentleman with French and Belgian roots, and you'll get to meet him soon.

And now, the million-dollar bond robbery.

What a number of bond robberies there have been lately, I observed one morning, laying aside the newspaper.

Boarro, let us forsake the science of detection and take the crime instead.

Yaronze, how do you say it?

Get rich quick tack, a mona me.

Well, look at this fast 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 the Malde Mer and the difficulty of practicing the so excellent method of

Lavage were for a longer time than a few hours of crossing the channel,

"'I should delight to voyage myself on one of these big liners,' "'murred Poirot dreamily.

...