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Passenger to Frankfurt Paperback – January 1, 1988

by Agatha Christie (Author)
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 1,484 ratings
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Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you're invited to read...

Passenger To Frankfurt

It was an unusual predicament for Sir Stafford Nye-to awaken in a stupor after being drugged, only to find his passport stolen. There was also no trace of the fascinating woman he encountered in Frankfurt who begged him to help save her life. But Sir Stafford's troubles are only just beginning. The target of two murder attempts, he now seeks the help of the stranger who so urgently sought his. If he can locate her. What he finds is a woman of numerous identities and twice as many secrets, who ushers him into the shadows of an international conspiracy that could well prove to be the death of them.
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  1. Print length
    268 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Minotaur Books
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1988
  5. Dimensions
    4 x 0.75 x 6.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0312981708
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0312981709
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Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and several other books. Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages. She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature—Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple—and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre. Christie was born in Torquay, Devon in 1890. She died in 1976 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Agatha Christie is the world's best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies. Agatha Christie also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie died in 1976.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books (January 1, 1988)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312981708
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312981709
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4 x 0.75 x 6.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. Yet Agatha Christie was always a very private person, and though Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple became household names, the Queen of Crime was a complete enigma to all but her closest friends.

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B. McKee
5.0 out of 5 stars It all started at the airport.
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2023
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This story is somewhat long and confusing, but every time I tried to quit it, it got interesting again. The story is a bit fantastical, but each action matters to the story later. There are a few surprises and the plot is clever.

If you've read the description, you know how it begins. Well, Sir Stafford Nye is fated to meet his mystery woman time and again. They do some traveling together and experience some unusual adventures. It involves civil unrest, espionage, science, money, weapons, and government.

Who can be trusted?

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Donna Durbin
4.0 out of 5 stars great addition
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2020
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this is a great addition to my Agatha Christie collection.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not my favorite
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
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I've read a number of Agatha Christie's books and have enjoyed them. However, I did not enjoy this one,and at times found it boring.
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Zombie Inkpot
2.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022
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The best thing about this book is the introduction, in which Agatha writes rather nicely about her career and the difficulty of getting old. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill after that.

The opening of the book has an interesting set piece where a man lets a woman impersonate him on a plane in order to escape some spy stuff.

The rest of the book is mostly dialog. Lots of giving out about anarchic youth and the problem with students. Lots of head scratching and what to do. Lots of moaning about getting old and everyone thinking your dead.

Apparently the answer is to chemically change everyone’s personality and make them nice, the idea for which came via an old dear who was praising lobotomy. These are supposed to be the good guys!

An interesting read because it’s the author’s last book and it includes a lot of her musings about the youth revolution and the changes in the world since she was a young woman. However, it’s completely bizarre and quite boring too, so I can’t recommend it.
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BookwormNJ
1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this book.
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015
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Agatha Christie has a few types of novels: the classic whodunit, usually with an amateur detective; a spy story, ditto; and the worldwide conspiracy. Some of her worldwide conspiracies are quite good. This is not. Passenger to Frankfurt begins auspiciously, with a mysterious stranger in an airport. Then it jumps between transcriptions of meetings of politicos, random continental jaunts, more strange meetings with the yellow-faced Mr. Robinson, a wonderful new age drug, and of course, Aunt Mathilda. The plot is difficult to follow, the characters uninteresting, and Christie's contempt for young people is never more apparent.

Avoid this book.
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Chris S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Not her best? It IS her best!!! Don't be misled by negative comments. A star turn!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2019
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Agatha Christie was a prolific writer, and incredibly satisfying. But this one is truly her best. I mean it. Yes, I've seen all the negative reviews and am at a loss to account for them. Agatha Christie wrestled all her life with a central question: what makes people tick? In solving murders via her pen, Hercule Poirot used his little grey cells to find psychological explanations that led him to find the killer. Jane Marple used analogies to people she had known earlier (mostly in her home village) to do the same. But in Passenger to Frankfurt, Christie poses not a murder thriller per se but rather a complex question: as disaffection and even violence rise in the world, who is pulling the levers behind the growing youth movement that poses a malevolent threat to world peace, and what must nations do to stop them? Contrary to reports by commenters that the middle of her book gets lost, Christie actually maintains a laser focus on this question from beginning to end. An early protagonist in the novel, Sir Stafford Nye, finds himself both pawn and detective while developing a relationship with a woman who intrigues him but who uses him, for good or evil, he knows not which. Bits and pieces of the answer to the main question appear in a purposely distracting fashion, just as they do in all Christie books. World leaders play their roles as the story of the coordinated attack across the globe starts to emerge. Trusted British movers and shakers known by Sir Stafford or by his Aunt Matilda, including the delightful Mr. Robinson who has appeared in other books, weave in and out of the effort to pin things down. They work together at the end to solve the last of the mystery and travel to northern Scotland for the final denouement. If you'll just follow the characters as they try to grapple with what's happening, you'll find that it hangs together beautifully. Only at the end does one fully understand the role of the woman who intrigues Sir Stafford and find out what happens to their relationship. And the characters are wonderful, especially the delightful Aunt Matilda who's clearly channelling Miss Marple. As a passionate lover of Christie's books for decades, I've never read a better one. Give yourself a chance. Please put the comments aside, treat it as a real mystery rather than the philosophical treatise of which so many commenters complained, follow the trail of bread crumbs Christie leaves throughout the book, and see whether you don't find it one of your favorites, too!
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logosapiens
4.0 out of 5 stars Frankfurt Flughafen.
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
One of Agatha Christie's least liked books written in 1970, A passenger from Frankfurt enticed a bored diplomat in the Frankfurt Flughafen...the mystery begins as a global conspiracy unfolds. Who is the head of the mysterious right wing conspiracy to erode government and herald in a long forgotten Reich? Who is the distressed passenger our diplomat risked prosecution for? The tale takes us to an exotic Schloss in Bayern with a corpulent countess. The countess is the head of a still vibrant German military industrial order bent on resurrection. The key here is not plot or who done it but... identity. This would understandably disappoint mystery purists but it would appeal to those who liked the 1963 movie Charade. Charade was a spy romcom featuring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn...it too was a long on mistaken identity but otherwise unsolvable. Were Charade and Passenger fellow travelers in the mind of Agatha? a spy power couple like Charade? Could this be about the 2020 USA riots and the Left as well? I read this book, or at least began it, in Frankfurt Flughafen Terminal C. Is this location ironic or a case of mistaken identity?
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Majowa
5.0 out of 5 stars As always Agata Christie is full proof. Never disappoints you.
Reviewed in Canada on October 8, 2023
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I read all the books by Agata Christie with pleasure.
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rex empire
1.0 out of 5 stars Ghost?
Reviewed in Italy on November 16, 2021
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Un romanzetto di fantapolitica di livello scarso. Non riesco a credere che sia di A. C.
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SRay
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in India on September 26, 2019
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Good book
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Reader2
3.0 out of 5 stars A bit confusing
Reviewed in Japan on August 11, 2020
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A bit slow moving, but the ending is really quick. A bit confusing near the end. Not really sure about the ending, how it explains everything.
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John
5.0 out of 5 stars A character led book, ignore the plot
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2016
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It's not one of her best books and the plot is a bit over the top but the main characters are really worth reading the book for. Christie's later books are more about the people, more character led than plot led and this is one of those. Enjoy the characters and forgive the plot
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