The Million Dollar Bond Robbery Summary

Poirot and Hastings discuss traveling and robberies when Miss Esmee Farquhar comes to see them. She is a twenty-five-year-old, well-dressed lady. She wants Poirot to investigate the theft of the Liberty Bonds carried by her fiance Mr Philip Ridgeway to New York on board the Olympia. He works for his uncle Mr Vavasour, a general manager of the London and Scottish Bank.

Mr Vavasour entrusted Mr Ridgeway with the Liberty Bonds worth one million dollars to be taken to America as part of his dealings with the New York bank. Mr Ridgeway was handed the bonds by his uncle and another general manager, Mr Shaw, on the day of the trip. After the bonds were counted and sealed in Philip's presence, they were placed in his portmanteau. Mr Shaw arranged for a special Hubb's lock...