Passenger to Frankfurt is not my favorite Christie mystery, at all. The spy ones and conspiracy ones just don’t work for me like the good old inheritance dramas do, and this is really heavy in the conspiracy part.  But I had a trip to Germany, so obviously I had to read it while I was a passenger to Frankfurt.

Stafford Nye is some kind of diplomat on his way home to Britain from some kind of meetings in Malaya. The book’s extremely vague on job titles and heavy on the British old’s-boys network, and other unspoken networks, it’s clear that Stafford knows a lot of important people and has a vaguely diplomatic job.  They talk around a lot of his work,

A woman comes up to him in the airport and says her life is at risk and national security is...

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