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…
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.
Tabella dei contenuti
- Introduction
- Chapter I: Beware of Railway-Journeys!
- Chapter II: The Big Hotel
- Chapter III: Yussuf Khan, Maharajah of Nasirabad
- Chapter IV: The Big Hotel (Continued)
- Chapter V: The Hole in The Wall And The Hole in The Floor
- Chapter VI: A Disappearance And Other Matters
- Chapter VII: The Adventures of Mynheer Van Schleeten
- Chapter VIII: The Return of Yussuf Khan
- Chapter IX: ‘The Morning After’ for Prince And Poet
- Chapter X: Which Perhaps Attains Its Purpose of Confusing The Reader
- Chapter XI: A Festival And Its Termination
- Chapter XII: The Marriage of Yussuf Khan
- Chapter XIII: Single Ticket, Nasirabad
- A Note From The Publisher
Circa l’autore
Frank Heller was the pseudonym of Martin Gunnar Serner, the first internationally famous Swedish crime writer. The son of a clergyman, he graduated in English literature and was considered a promising academic, but his career in the Swedish education system came to an abrupt end after it was discovered he had been supporting himself as a successful bank swindler. In September 1912 in the course of an hour he successfully cashed two forged cheques at two different banks, but the third bank was more alert, and Heller fled Sweden to escape arrest. Desperate for cash after losing the rest of his swindled money in a casino in Monte Carlo, he tried his hand at writing novels with immediate success. As his career flourished he was eventually able to settle his debts and return to Sweden, although he always loved to travel and to research new settings for his books. In total he produced forty-three novels, short stories and travelogues before his death in 1947 in a bicycle accident.
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