Agatha Christie always had been a fan of detective novels, having enjoyed Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and The Moonstone, as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes stories. She wrote her own detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Hercule Poirot, a former Belgian police officer noted for his twirly large "magnificent moustaches" and egg-shaped head. Poirot had taken refuge in Britain after Germany invaded Belgium. Christie's inspiration for the character stemmed from real Belgian refugees who were living in Torquay and the Belgian soldiers whom she helped to treat as a volunteer nurse in Torquay during the First World War. In The Kidnapped Prime Minister, during the First World War, Poirot was involved in saving peace negotiations by rescuing the kidnapped English Prime Minister, David MacAdam. When he and Captain Hastings are discussing the attempt to assassinate David MacAdam, Lord Estair and Mr Bernard Dodge visit them. They ask Poirot to find the Prime Minister, who was kidnapped most likely to disrupt the Allied Conference at Versailles. When travelling from London to Paris he was to drive from Boulogne with Captain Daniels and the A.D.C. The car has been found at the side of the road with the chauffeur and the A.D.C. bound and the Prime Minister missing. The car that was to drive the Prime Minister was substituted with another.travelling… You can listen online to free English audiobook “The Kidnapped Prime Minister” by Agatha Christie on our website.
