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.
Table of Content
- 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