THE MILLION DOLLAR BOND ROBBERY by AGATHA CHRISTIE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Hercule Poirot solves the case of a million dollar bond robbery with some very clever thinking...
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Pourot and Miss Marple. The Guiness Book of World Records lists her as the best selling author in history, with 66 novels and 14 huge short story collections.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Thanks for joining us everyone at 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. We have a great story for you here today, |
| 0:36.7 | the million dollar bond robbery, by Agathicthy Christie. |
| 0:41.5 | The Guinness Book of World Records lists England's own Agathicristy as the best-selling novelist of all time. |
| 0:48.0 | And if you ask anyone who reads, and especially anyone who enjoys a great mystery, they will probably agree. |
| 0:54.0 | I'll leave her bio to your own discovery, but I will mention that she wrote 66 detective novels |
| 1:00.0 | and 14 large short story collections. |
| 1:03.0 | And the reason we're able to bring her stories to you now |
| 1:06.0 | is because her first ones just hit the public domain this year. |
| 1:10.0 | It has taken me a while to get in gear |
| 1:12.0 | 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 Urquille Poirot. And yes, I checked, and that's how his name is usually pronounced. |
| 1:27.0 | Poirot is an English-speaking gentleman with French and Belgian roots, and you'll get to meet him soon. |
| 1:33.0 | And now the million dollar bond robbery. |
| 1:36.0 | What a number of bond robberies there have been lately. |
| 1:40.0 | I observed one morning laying aside the newspaper. |
| 1:44.0 | Poiro, let us forsake the science of detection and take the crime instead. |
| 1:49.0 | Yur'n't the, how do you say it? |
| 1:53.0 | Get rich quick tack, a mon ami. |
| 1:56.0 | Well, look at this fast coup. |
| 1:58.0 | The million dollars worth of liberty bonds which the London and Scottish bank were sending to New York and which |
| 2:04.0 | disappeared in such a remarkable manner on board the Olympia. If it were not |
| 2:09.1 | for Zemaldemaire and the difficulty of practicing the so excellent method of LaVage were for a longer |
| 2:16.1 | time than a few hours of crossing the channel. |
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