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The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly: Directed by Renny Rye. With David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran. Poirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems.
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- Renny Rye
- 1989-01-22
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The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly is a short story by Agatha Christie which was first published in The Sketch in October 1923 in the U.K. It the U.S., the story was first published in The Blue Book Magazine in June 1925. The story was gathered and included in the collection Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, by Dodd, Mead and Company in the U.S. in...
A country squire and his wife ask Poirot to help after their son Johnny is kidnapped. Surprisingly, the kidnappers had sent a note beforehand stating the exact time the kidnapping was to take place.
Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate the kidnapping of three-year-old Johnnie Waverly, the son of Marcus Waverly from his old family home, Waverly Court in Surrey. For several days prior to the kidnapping, the family received anonymous letters which threatened to take the boy unless twenty-five thousand pounds was paid. Mr. Waverly took the letters to the police who took little interest until a final letter was received which stated that the boy would be kidnapped at twelve o'clock the next day. On the day that the threat was due to take place, Mrs Waverly was mildly poisoned and a note was left on Mr Waverly's pillow which stated, "At Twelve O'Clock". Horrified that there was someone inside the house who was involved, Mr Waverly sacked all of the staff except for his long-time Butler, Tredwell and Miss Collins, his wife's trusted secretary-companion.
At the appointed time, Waverly, his son and Inspector McNeil of Scotland Yard were in a locked room in the house with police posted in the extensive grounds. Dead on twelve, the police found a tramp sneaking toward the house who had on him cotton wool, chloroform and a post-kidnap note ready to plant. Waverly and the Inspector dashed outside to see what was happening and the boy was taken then – driven off in a car through a now unguarded gate. The astonished people then heard the village clock chiming twelve and realised that the main clock in the house had been put forward by ten minutes. A car with a small child in it was stopped some time later but found not to be the one that the police were looking for. The tramp claims he was employed by Tredwell but the butler has an alibi for the time that he was supposedly meeting the tramp as he was in the house with Mr Waverly at the time.
•Hercule Poirot
•Captain Hastings
•Marcus Waverly
•Ada Waverly
•Johnnie Waverly
•Inspector McNeil
Agatha Christie's Poirot
A television film with David Suchet as Poirot was produced as episode 3 of Series 1 of the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, first broadcast on 22 January 1989. The adaptation is highly faithful to the original story.
Les Petits Meurtes d'Agatha
An French adaptation L'étrange enlèvement du petit Bruno was made as episode 12 of season 2 of the series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, first broadcast on France 2 on 26 Aug 2016.
•1923: The Sketch, Issue 1602 (London), 10 October 1923, as "The Kidnapping of Johnny Waverly".
•1925: The Blue Book Magazine, Vol. 41 No. 2 (Chicago), June 1925.
•1929: The World’s Best One Hundred Detective Stories, Volume 4 ed. Eugene Thwing, Funk & Wagnall's, 1929, as "The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly".
•1950: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1950.
•1955: The Saint Detective Magazine, vol. 4 no. 1, Jul 1955, as "The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly".
•1956: The Saint Detective Magazine (Australia edition), vol. 5 no. 3, Nov 1956, as "The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly".
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"The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly" Poirot is called in to investigate the kidnapping of three-year-old Johnnie Waverly, the son of Marcus Waverly, from his home, Waverly Court in Surrey. Prior to the kidnapping, the family received anonymous letters that threatened to take the boy unless twenty-five thousand pounds was paid.
- Agatha Christie
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A list of cast and crew members for the episode based on Agatha Christie's short story. David Suchet stars as Hercule Poirot, who investigates a murder at a country house.
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly. Hercule Poirot. ⍔ Short Story. 1923. A three-year-old is taken from his family home and it looks like an inside job. From Poirot’s Early Cases and Three Blind Mice and Other Stories . More about this story.
Synopsis. Poirot is called in to investigate the kidnapping of three-year old Johnnie Waverly (Dominic Rougier), the son of Marcus Waverly (Geoffrey Bateman), from his home, Waverly Court in Surrey. Prior to the kidnapping, the family received anonymous letters that threatened to take the boy unless twenty-five thousand pounds was paid.
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