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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: It turns out that Adolf Hitler changed places with a double in 1945 and eventually escaped to Argentina. He went crazy and died after a while, but the Nazi conspiracy of the 1970s is passing off a young man as his son.
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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: It turns out that Adolf Hitler changed places with a double in 1945 and eventually escaped to Argentina. He went crazy and died after a while, but the Nazi conspiracy of the 1970s is passing [[spoiler:passing off a young man man]] as his son.
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: At the end this has become the case. In order to counteract the mass uprising of indoctrinated young people actually working for a neo-Nazi group, a chemical that basically removes any trace of aggression or ill-intent towards another human being is massively released. This is treated as an unadulterated happy ending.
* ChekhovsGunman: Milly Jean Cortman, wife of the American ambassador in Britain, whom Sir Stafford meets at an embassy party that he attends with Renata. Milly Jean is eventually revealed to be "Juanita", the assassin in league with the Nazis (she kills her own husband).
* ChekhovsGunman: Milly Jean Cortman, wife of the American ambassador in Britain, whom Sir Stafford meets at an embassy party that he attends with Renata. Milly Jean is eventually revealed to be "Juanita", the assassin in league with the Nazis (she kills her own husband).
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: At the end this has become the case. In order to counteract the mass uprising of indoctrinated young people actually working for a neo-Nazi group, a [[spoiler:a chemical that basically removes any trace of aggression or ill-intent towards another human being is massively released. This is treated as an unadulterated happy ending.
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* ChekhovsGunman:Milly [[spoiler:Milly Jean Cortman, wife of the American ambassador in Britain, Britain,]] whom Sir Stafford meets at an embassy party that he attends with Renata. Milly Jean [[spoiler:Milly Jean]] is eventually revealed to be "Juanita", the assassin in league with the Nazis (she ([[spoiler:she kills her own husband).husband]]).
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* FourthReich: The Countess von Waldsausen is orchestrating a worldwide movement to use student youth to bring the Nazis back into power, with her front man being a young fellow from Argentina who is supposedly Hitler's son (although it turns out to be a hoax).
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* FourthReich: The Countess von Waldsausen is orchestrating a worldwide movement to use student youth to bring the Nazis back into power, with her front man being a young fellow from Argentina who is supposedly Hitler's son (although ([[spoiler:although it turns out to be a hoax).hoax]]).
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Discussed in detail. Drugs and sex are one of the big ones, but it's the ability to unleash violence and anger at the world that keeps the youth movements happily manipulated.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Discussed in detail. Drugs and sex are one of the big ones, but it's the ability to unleash violence and anger at the world that keeps the youth movements happily manipulated.
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* TheMole: James Kleek is revealed at the climax to be a mole in league with "Juanita" and the neo-Nazi conspiracy. He tries to murder Lord Altamont.
* NapoleonDelusion: A creepy German psychiatrist tells the good guys that he ran a hospital with a whole ward of people who imagined that they were Napoleon, or Hitler, or Julius Caesar. It seems that in the last days of the war one of the Hitler nutcases was switched out with the actual Adolf Hitler, who made his escape to South America.
* NapoleonDelusion: A creepy German psychiatrist tells the good guys that he ran a hospital with a whole ward of people who imagined that they were Napoleon, or Hitler, or Julius Caesar. It seems that in the last days of the war one of the Hitler nutcases was switched out with the actual Adolf Hitler, who made his escape to South America.
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* TheMole: James Kleek [[spoiler:James Kleek]] is revealed at the climax to be a mole in league with "Juanita" and the neo-Nazi conspiracy. He [[spoiler:He]] tries to murder Lord Altamont.
* NapoleonDelusion: A creepy German psychiatrist tells the good guys that he ran a hospital with a whole ward of people who imagined that they were Napoleon, or Hitler, or JuliusCaesar.Caesar (and even God). It seems that in the last days of the war one of the Hitler nutcases was switched out with the actual Adolf Hitler, who made his escape to South America.
* NapoleonDelusion: A creepy German psychiatrist tells the good guys that he ran a hospital with a whole ward of people who imagined that they were Napoleon, or Hitler, or Julius
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* NukeEm: The idea of using ''nuclear weapons'' on the rioters is mentioned a few times, fortunately saner heads prevail by pointing out there's no point in nuking them if you have an irradiated country afterwards.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Well, young people in their 20s rather than actual teens are basically all anarchists being manipulated into thinking they need to tear down the old world order to start a golden age.
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* ShoutOut: Aunt Matilda references ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' while talking to Sir Stafford.
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* AuthorTract: Agatha Christie, an 80-year-old rich English lady, was obviously terrified by the student youth movement and protests like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 May 1968 uprising]] in France. In this story those protests are obviously the harbinger of a world uprising of gullible young people being manipulated through sex and drugs by a neo-Nazi movement.
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* AuthorTract: Agatha Christie, an 80-year-old rich English lady, was obviously terrified by the student youth movement and protests like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 May 1968 uprising]] in France. In this story those protests are obviously the harbinger of a world uprising of gullible young people being manipulated through sex and drugs by a neo-Nazi movement.
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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: It turns out that Adolf Hitler changed places with a double in 1945 and eventually escaped to Argentina. He went crazy and died after a while, but the Nazi conspiracy of the 1970s is passing off a young man as his son.
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* ConspiracyThriller: The British government trying to destroy a secret society bent on taking over the world and establishing a new Nazi state.
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* FourthReich: The Countess von Waldsausen is orchestrating a worldwide movement to use student youth to bring the Nazis back into power, with her front man being a young fellow from Argentina who is supposedly Hitler's son (although it turns out to be a hoax).
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Sir Stafford's Aunt Matilda says offhand that "I wasn't bad looking when I was young."
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: As the mystery lady is asking Sir Stafford for his passport so she can escape assassins, he snarks, "You know what you're talking like? A beautiful spy in a thriller."
* MeetCute: A spy version of MeetCute as Renata comes up to Sir Stafford in an airport, and says that she has to have his passport to escape assassins that are waiting for her.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: As the mystery lady is asking Sir Stafford for his passport so she can escape assassins, he snarks, "You know what you're talking like? A beautiful spy in a thriller."
* MeetCute: A spy version of MeetCute as Renata comes up to Sir Stafford in an airport, and says that she has to have his passport to escape assassins that are waiting for her.
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* OldRetainer: Sir Stafford's Aunt Matilda is attended by a fellow named Horace, who was once a groom, once a coachman, now a chauffeur, and is still working for Aunt Matilda at age eighty.
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* TitleDropChapter: The first chapter, in which Sir Stafford meets the mystery lady in the airport, is titled "Passenger to Frankfurt".
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Sir Stafford says that the Nazi youth movement is engaging in "high explosives, hijackers, high jinks."
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: At the end this has become the case. In order to counteract the mass uprising of indoctrinated young people actually working for a neo-Nazi group, a chemical that basically removes any trace of aggression or ill-intent towards another human being is massively released. This is treated as an unadulterated happy ending.
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* NextSundayAD: Set at some vague future date where student protests like May '68 have continued to spiral out of hand, with Washington DC having been burned to the ground, civil unrest everywhere, airports destroyed, and the like.
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* TheMole: James Kleek is revealed at the climax to be a mole in league with "Juanita" and the neo-Nazi conspiracy. He tries to murder Lord Altamont.
* NapoleonDelusion: A creepy German psychiatrist tells the good guys that he ran a hospital with a whole ward of people who imagined that they were Napoleon, or Hitler, or Julius Caesar. It seems that in the last days of the war one of the Hitler nutcases was switched out with the actual Adolf Hitler, who made his escape to South America.
* NextSundayAD: Set at some vague future date where student protests like May '68 have continued to spiral out of hand, with Washington DC having been burned to the ground, civil unrest everywhere, most European airports destroyed, and the like.
* NapoleonDelusion: A creepy German psychiatrist tells the good guys that he ran a hospital with a whole ward of people who imagined that they were Napoleon, or Hitler, or Julius Caesar. It seems that in the last days of the war one of the Hitler nutcases was switched out with the actual Adolf Hitler, who made his escape to South America.
* NextSundayAD: Set at some vague future date where student protests like May '68 have continued to spiral out of hand, with Washington DC having been burned to the ground, civil unrest everywhere, most European airports destroyed, and the like.
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* SpellMyNameWithABlank: Dr. Reichardt tells how in the closing days of the war Adolf Hitler himself visited the asylum in the company of his aide, one "Martin B."--Bormann, that is.
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** Sir Stafford, when he is approached by some Brits in league with the Nazi conspiracy, shows that he is one of them (or rather, pretends that he is one of them) by pulling out a recorder and playing a snatch from Wagner's opera ''Siegfried''.
** And immediately after that, when he gets a phone call from the Foreign Office, he answers the question "Sir Stafford?" with the code phrase "No smoke without fire."
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** Sir Stafford, when he is approached by some Brits in league with the Nazi conspiracy, shows that he is one of them (or rather, pretends that he is one of them) by pulling out a recorder and playing a snatch from Wagner's opera ''Siegfried''.
** And immediately after that, when he gets a phone call from the Foreign Office, he answers the question "Sir Stafford?" with the code phrase "No smoke without fire."
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''Passenger to Frankfurt'' is a 1970 novel by Creator/AgathaChristie.
It's not a murder mystery like most of Christie's works, but rather a spy thriller--in fact, the last of the spy thrillers that she'd written from time to time since the 1920s. Sir Stafford Nye is a rather undistinguished mid-level diplomat. While waiting in the Frankfurt airport he meets a mysterious young woman who asks him for his passport. She will board his plane while pretending to be him. She begs him for help because, if he doesn't help her escape, she will be killed. Sir Stafford, intrigued, agrees to help, and lets her take his passport, which he reports as stolen.
Nye eventually gets back home where he's quizzed by his acquaintances at the Foreign Office. It turns out that the woman who took his passport is a spy code named "Mary Ann". Nye, intrigued, puts out a subtly coded message for her in the newspaper. The woman makes contact with him and invites him to an opera. The woman, whose real name is Countess Renata Zerkowski, eventually enlists Nye's help in exposing a secret conspiracy. The conspiracy, aimed at nothing less than taking over the world, seeks to manipulate left-wing student protest movements into the establishment of a Nazi Fourth Reich.
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* AuthorTract: Agatha Christie, an 80-year-old rich English lady, was obviously terrified by the student youth movement and protests like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 May 1968 uprising]] in France. In this story those protests are obviously the harbinger of a world uprising of gullible young people being manipulated through sex and drugs by a neo-Nazi movement.
* ChekhovsGunman: Milly Jean Cortman, wife of the American ambassador in Britain, whom Sir Stafford meets at an embassy party that he attends with Renata. Milly Jean is eventually revealed to be "Juanita", the assassin in league with the Nazis (she kills her own husband).
* FatBastard: Countess Charlotte von Waldsausen, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi movement, is morbidly obese.
* NextSundayAD: Set at some vague future date where student protests like May '68 have continued to spiral out of hand, with Washington DC having been burned to the ground, civil unrest everywhere, airports destroyed, and the like.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The unnamed French Marshal is a clear reference to UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle. (In RealLife De Gaulle died just a couple of months after this book was published.)
* TheVerse: Mr. Robinson, a shadowy figure who is said to know international finance quite well, and is on the side of the good guys trying to thwart the conspiracy. This character appeared before in Christie novels ''Literature/CatAmongThePigeons'' and ''Literature/AtBertramsHotel'' (and would appear again in the last novel Christie ever wrote, ''Literature/PosternOfFate'').
It's not a murder mystery like most of Christie's works, but rather a spy thriller--in fact, the last of the spy thrillers that she'd written from time to time since the 1920s. Sir Stafford Nye is a rather undistinguished mid-level diplomat. While waiting in the Frankfurt airport he meets a mysterious young woman who asks him for his passport. She will board his plane while pretending to be him. She begs him for help because, if he doesn't help her escape, she will be killed. Sir Stafford, intrigued, agrees to help, and lets her take his passport, which he reports as stolen.
Nye eventually gets back home where he's quizzed by his acquaintances at the Foreign Office. It turns out that the woman who took his passport is a spy code named "Mary Ann". Nye, intrigued, puts out a subtly coded message for her in the newspaper. The woman makes contact with him and invites him to an opera. The woman, whose real name is Countess Renata Zerkowski, eventually enlists Nye's help in exposing a secret conspiracy. The conspiracy, aimed at nothing less than taking over the world, seeks to manipulate left-wing student protest movements into the establishment of a Nazi Fourth Reich.
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!!Tropes:
* AuthorTract: Agatha Christie, an 80-year-old rich English lady, was obviously terrified by the student youth movement and protests like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 May 1968 uprising]] in France. In this story those protests are obviously the harbinger of a world uprising of gullible young people being manipulated through sex and drugs by a neo-Nazi movement.
* ChekhovsGunman: Milly Jean Cortman, wife of the American ambassador in Britain, whom Sir Stafford meets at an embassy party that he attends with Renata. Milly Jean is eventually revealed to be "Juanita", the assassin in league with the Nazis (she kills her own husband).
* FatBastard: Countess Charlotte von Waldsausen, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi movement, is morbidly obese.
* NextSundayAD: Set at some vague future date where student protests like May '68 have continued to spiral out of hand, with Washington DC having been burned to the ground, civil unrest everywhere, airports destroyed, and the like.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The unnamed French Marshal is a clear reference to UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle. (In RealLife De Gaulle died just a couple of months after this book was published.)
* TheVerse: Mr. Robinson, a shadowy figure who is said to know international finance quite well, and is on the side of the good guys trying to thwart the conspiracy. This character appeared before in Christie novels ''Literature/CatAmongThePigeons'' and ''Literature/AtBertramsHotel'' (and would appear again in the last novel Christie ever wrote, ''Literature/PosternOfFate'').
