Beware of Railway-Journeys: A Scandinavian Mystery Classic
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When Allan Kragh impulsively follows a beautiful grey-eyed woman onto a train¸ he doesn't expect to be sharing a compartment with a notorious master criminal - or to be arrested in his place. Still¸ he doesn't bear a grudge¸ until he realises that his hotel in London is hosting not only the same fellow-travellers¸ but the Maharajah of Nasirabad and his fabled jewel collection...
First published in 1923¸ Beware of Railway-Journeys will take you from a Paris-bound railway car to a glittering London hotel¸ in the company of an unassuming hero with a knack for observation.
Frank Heller was the pseudonym of Gunnar Serner¸ who was the first internationally famous Swedish crime writer. The son of a clergyman¸ to avoid arrest after a financial fraud he left Sweden for the continent. After losing the swindled money in a casino in Monte Carlo¸ he tried his hand at writing novels with immediate success¸ and produced forty-three novels¸ short stories and travelogues before his death in 1947.