Characters in Passenger to Frankfurt

Supporting characters

• Sir Stafford Nye

  His boredom and detachment make him both the perfect reluctant amateur and an unreliable judge of the people drawing him in.

• Countess Renata Zerkowski

  Equally convincing in any guise and society, she is the engine of the plot and the chief test of whom Nye can trust.

• Mr Robinson

  An expensive but reputedly honest money-man who recurs across Christie's later spy and mystery novels.

• Colonel Pikeaway

  A recurring Christie spymaster whose seemingly half-asleep manner masks a sharp grasp of underground threats.

• Lord Altamount

  A figure of old-fashioned honour who, despite his frailty, is treated as the moral spine of the investigation.

• Great-Aunt Matilda

  A comic but perceptive voice who quietly contributes more insight than her age and station would suggest.

• Henry Horsham

  One of the working intelligence men who bridges the diplomatic circle and the practical hunt.