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On Friday evening, Annette Briers is flattered to share a cab to Marylebone Station with her elegant and standoffish boss, Miranda Gregory. At the station, as they sit over coffee waiting for their train, Miranda becomes inexplicably shaken and insists that she return to the office. On Monday morning, Annette returns to work to find a very dead stranger seated at her boss's desk. As Detective-Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his team from the Thames Valley Police Force begin to investigate, it becomes clear that Miranda never reached her office on Friday. An unconscious hit-and-run victim in a suburban hospital is soon identified as the missing woman. The London force is brought in to work with Yeadings and his team as they search for the elusive link between the murder and the traffic accident. While Miranda, an orphan with no apparent leads to her past, hovers near death, a shadowy pattern of past evil and frustrated love emerges, confounding investigators. Was Miranda a martyr or a murderess?
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Tom Lindy
reviewed Past mischief on January 15, 2013
Past mischief
"I hate to say it, but this was terrible. Dear Agatha was really losing it. Laughably, this is subtitled ""an Extraganza"", but it's more like a disaster.
Passenger is one of her thrillers, although the word hardly applies. Set in 1970, it starts out promisingly with unambitious diplomat Sir Stafford Nye accepting a daring proposal from the beautiful and enigmatic Countess Renata in the Frankfort airport. The next 100 pages are engaging as he tries to track down this woman, avoids some near death experiences, and meets with his amusing great aunt. But then Agatha Christie totally forgets about that plot and spends another 160 pages underdeveloping a Youth riot/neo-Nazi/world domination scheme where the same characters are rarely seen in more than one chapter and the so-called mystery/murder is an afterthought in the last chapter (no clues anywhere that I can see). And then a nonsensical epilogue.
I had read this as a child but didn't really remember very well; now I see why. It's full of rants about youth which are sadly typical of late Christie. The only thing I can say is that an author needs to start rewrites from page 100 on with the premise. I really can't even recommend this for completists. "
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