Showing results for "The Passenger" in Literature & Fiction

Amanda is a hardworking single mum, completely focused on her job and her daughter, Louise. She’s been saving for years, and now, finally, she can afford to give up work and chase her dream. But then, on her commute home from London to Brighton, she meets a charming stranger - who seems to know everything about her. He delivers an ultimatum. She needs to give him the code for the safe where she keeps her savings before the train reaches Brighton - or she’ll never see Louise again.

When Leah caught the train that day, it should have been the escape she longed for. A new start, away from the terrible things she had done. She had no idea how that jounrey would change her life forever... Because when the train is involved in a terrible crash, Leah is given a moment to reassess her life. Can she make amends for what she did? Can she start again?

Between October 2018 and March 2021, Will Ashon collected voices—people talking about their lives, needs, dreams, loves, hopes and fears—all of them with some connection to the British Isles. He used a range of methods including letters sent to random addresses, hitchhiking, referrals from strangers and so on. He conducted the interviews in person, on the phone, over the internet or asked people to record themselves. Interview techniques ranged from asking people to tell him a secret to choosing an arbitrary question from a list.

Colonel John Quinn was a young, ambitious Air Force pilot who loved to fly - until an Iraqi missile nearly ended his career and his life. Three surgeries and four years later, Quinn is functional, but not good enough to fly. Assigned to the Pentagon, he's prepared to spend the rest of his career in a series of boring staff jobs. Then a military Lear jet crashes shortly after takeoff in the rural farmlands outside Washington, and Quinn is called to lead the biggest investigation of his life.

Christie's superb stand-alone mystery, Passenger to Frankfurt, is a true masterwork of surprise and suspense, as a diplomat comes to the aid of a terrified woman in an airport, only to find that his identity has been stolen and his life is suddenly in serious jeopardy. Sir Stafford Nye's flight...

Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. Passenger List is a mystery thriller podcast from PRX’s Radiotopia.

A grisly spirit turns travelling companion for an unwitting traveller on the top deck of a London bus one bleak winter’s night in this short story.

On a deserted road in the New Forest, a couple come across a man lying, apparently injured, in the road. They carry him to their car - but on the way to hospital, the driver hears knife blades clashing behind his head and things are not as they might have seemed... Pull on your headphones and Horror-fi yourself. 'Revolutionise' is an often overused word however this is what Horror-Fi achieve with there new recording technology/process for recording audio drama.

Acht Passagiere werden in ihren selbstfahrenden Autos eingeschlossen. Ihre Route wird neu berechnet. Ihr Ziel: der Tod. "Guten Morgen, Claire. Dir dürfte aufgefallen sein, dass du deinen Wagen nicht mehr unter Kontrolle hast. In zwei Stunden wirst du mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit tot sein." Als die hochschwangere Claire diese Worte aus dem Lautsprecher ihres selbstfahrenden Autos vernimmt, hält sie es für einen schlechten Scherz.

Reporter Kate Kilroy accepts an assignment to travel on the Valkyrie, a German ship veiled in secrecy for decades after it was discovered adrift in 1939 with only one passenger aboard, a baby boy named Isaac Feldman. Obsessed with understanding his origins, Feldman has spent a small fortune restoring the Valkyrie to try to solve the mystery. Assembling a team of experts and sparing no expense, he aims to precisely recreate the circumstances of the Valkyrie's doomed final voyage.

พลันที่ข้อความถูกส่งออกไป วินาทีนั่นเอง ปีกเครื่องบินระเบิดเสียงดังสนั่น เสียงหวีดร้องดังขึ้นตามด้วยเสียงสัญญาณเตือนภัยทันใดนั้น เหนือที่นั่งผู้โดยสาร หน้ากากออกซิเจนหลุดพ้นผลัวะลงมาทว่าไม่มีผู้โดยสารคนใดแม้แต่คนเดียวได้มีโอกาสสวมมัน สิ่งสุดท้ายในห้วงความคิดของ "จริม" ซึ่งพร่าไปด้วยแสงเจิดจ้าและเสียงระเบิดที่ลั่นเปรี๊ยะในแก้วหู ขณะมองผ่านหน้าต่างออกไปแล้วเห็นขอบฟ้าเมืองมรดกโลกเอียงลาดแผ่นดินพุ่งเข้าหาอย่างรวดเร็วเขาน่าจะได้มีโอกาสบอกรักภรรยา และกอดลูกชายก่อนตาย!!!

After his fathers death, Randall Clayton finds himself engulfed in a web of deceit and treachery. His fathers business partner, Hugh Worthington, seems caring, but harbors sinister plans that could lead Clayton to financial ruin. His roommate, Arthur Ferris, is not only planning his own schemes, but also vying for Worthington’s daughters love. In New York, Clayton earns meager wages, constantly under surveillance by Worthington’s spies and the menacing Fritz Braun, who covets the hefty deposit Clayton carries for his employer. His only ally appears to be Jack Witherspoon, who is ...

A series of podcasts hosted by our various editors, spanning a wealth of different genres including poetry, prose, visual arts, recorded live events, and the occasional interview. Also included are audio issues of our literary journal that are voiced, curated, produced, and mastered by our diverse staff of over 50 volunteer voice artists, narrators, and audio editors. Passengers Journal is an online literary and visual arts publication that seeks artists whose work challenges and perhaps offends prevailing artistic or societal sentiment. We accept art of all kinds but are especially intrigued ...

Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, her husband is stunned to discover that she had a lover who died alongside her. With thoughts of revenge on his mind, Fabien decides to find out about the lover’s widow, Martine, first by stalking her, then by breaking into her home. He really needs to get Martine on her own. But she never goes anywhere without her formidable best friend, Madeleine...

Pack your bags for the adventure of a lifetime… From the #1 bestselling author of The Cruise, embark on an unforgettable journey and sail through Norway’s winter wonderland to see the spectacular Northern Lights. 'A wonderful, emotional and heartwarming story of lost love and second chances...

Skrimshaw is the saloon passenger on board the Lochwinnoch, bound for Australia. He is relieved as the ship sets sail from England, because for the next three months at least, he is safe from the gallows. He has just committed a brutal murder and is fleeing justice. But within a month, news of the fugitive passenger is signaled to the captain of the ship. Skrimshaw has to find a way to escape before the police are called aboard the ship at Melbourne....

Bithia Mary Croker (1848-1920) was an Irish-born novelist and a notable writer of ghost stories; much of her work concerned life and society in British India. 'The Former Passengers' (1893) tells the story of Mr. Lawrence, who is on his way to Singapore to give his sister away at her wedding. As he finds he has missed the steamer he intended to catch, he persuades Captain Blane to take him in his cargo boat, the Wandering Star.

Anton Chekhov was a Russian writer who wrote short stories and plays. His short stories are still read by many people around the world. The short story, The First Class Passenger by Anton Chekov, was first published in 1886 and reflects the social background of the Russian society of that time.

One lonely night, a cabbie discovers that his intoxicated passenger has been suffocated with a handkerchief saturated in chloroform. The murderer, the victim, and the motive are all unknown. Fergus Hume's first literary attempt, became the best-selling mystery novel of the 19th century.

Com cada divendres després de sortir de la vella llibreria on treballa, Pedro realitza un trajecte amb autobús per visitar la seva nòvia, Rosane, que viu als afores de la ciutat. Durant el viatge, marcat pel congestionat trànsit de lhora punta, Pedro sentreté llegint un relat sobre el pas de Darwin per Brasil, escoltant rum ors sobre revoltes als afores, observant la ciutat i als passatgers de lautobús.