Beware of Railway-Journeys - (Scandinavian Mystery Classics) by Frank Heller (Paperback)

About the Book

When Allan Kragh impulsively follows a beautiful grey-eyed woman onto a train, he finds himself sharing a hotel with the Maharajah of Nasirabad and his fabled jewel collection...and a master criminal intent on stealing it.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"A detective story of the sort which positively will not allow the reader to put it down until the very end has been reached." -Daily News (London)

"With a single exception, the work of Frank Heller is the best Swedish crime fiction written during the first half of the twentieth century and is still both readable and interesting." -John-Henri Holmberg, A Darker Shade of Sweden

"A master of mystery...easily the finest mystery tale we have run across for some months...a brilliant yarn." -The Sketch

"Let me recommend to you the works of Mr Frank Heller, a Swedish writer of capital mystery tales." -Illustrated London News

"A really good story." -The Queenslander

"Cleverly told, and rather better than the usual detective story." -Country Life Stock and Station Journal

"An ingenious and amusing tale." -Sheffield Daily Telegraph

"A brightly told story which has many attractive features." -Dundee Courier