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"Passage Into Fear" relates the story of an English dowager, Mrs. Lillian Merriweather, who boards the train insisting she knows of a sinister plot with vast international repercussions. And then is promptly done in. Other characters include an American heiress on a final fling in Venice before returning home to be unhappily married, pugnacious 6-year-old Ukrainian war orphan, a Member of Parliament and his wife, a Romanian gypsies who have wandered the continent most of their life, a sinister Austrian doctor hiding an immense secret, and a ruthless German countess bent on achieving her evil ends no matter who gets in her way. Kate and Ida join forces to uncover the truth behind Mrs. Mer ...