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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

THE KIDNAPPED PRIME MINISTER by AGATHA CHRISTIE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Arts, Fiction

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A great Hercule Poirot mystery from Agatha Christie. Poirot is given a little more than 24 hours to find England;s kidnapped Prime Minister. He is given a team of detectives who are convinced that The Prime Minister was captured in France but Poirot insists on looking in England..

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0:00.0

Got the tickets, sir, hey?

0:02.0

Now, what movie are we watch?

0:03.0

Ooh, an adventure.

0:05.0

Oh, where are we?

0:08.0

Ooh, it's a tomb!

0:09.0

Okay, stay close to me and whatever you do, don't set off any...

0:12.0

Ooh, booby traps.

0:14.4

Uh oh!

0:15.4

Ah ha ha!

0:16.4

Whoa, whoa, whoa,

0:17.1

Sam, run?

0:18.1

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only cheaper, free, T's and sees apply. The The Welcome back everyone to 100 one classic short stories and tales. Today a story from mystery writer Agatha Christie.

1:07.4

This story, The Kidnapped Prime Minister, is a short story written by Agatha Christie,

1:11.2

which was first published in the

1:12.6

sketch in April 1923 in the UK. The story was published in the US in the

1:17.6

Blue Book magazine in July of 1924. The short summary, the Prime Minister has been kidnapped and Poiro has 24 and a quarter hours to find him in time for him to attend an important peace conference.

1:29.0

To everyone's dismay, including Hastings, Poirot seems to spend most of the time doing the exact opposite

1:35.2

of what he's expected to do.

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