The Million Dollar Bond Robbery: Poirot Investigates. Agatha Christie short story collection
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The Million Dollar Bond Robbery - classic short story written by English author Agatha Christie. The story was first published as a book in the collection Poirot Investigates, 1924.ย ย
ย The fiancรฉe of Philip Ridgeway asks Poirot to prove his innocence. Ridgeway is the nephew of Mr Vavasour, the joint general manager of the London and Scottish Bank and a million dollars of bonds have gone missing whilst in his care. Poirot meets Ridgeway at the Cheshire Cheese to hear the facts of the case: Ridgeway was entrusted by his uncle and the other general manager, Mr Shaw, with taking a million dollars of Liberty bonds to New York to extend the bank's credit line there. The bonds were counted in Ridgeway's presence in London, sealed in a packet and then put in his portmanteau that had a special lock on it. The packet disappeared just a few hours before the liner on which Ridgeway was travelling, the Olympia, docked in New York.ย
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