There is a plot reason for this and he does manage to find some time to scribble, but his unique ability to solve the crime through drawing felt less utilised than in previous books. Baron Essenbach, who hired them, gives the pair information and asks them to investigate a suspicious death. MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman just keep on outdoing themselves with a series that gets better and better! This time, Hal and Uncle Nat - now well-recognised for their detective endeavours across the world - are invited to Germany to help solve a mystery. She has a first-class honours degree in English literature and an MA in Shakespeare Studies from Kings College London.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.From the beginning I was hooked, wanting to solve the mystery and, as usual, I enjoyed the twists and turns along the way. Legend has it the Kratzensteins, a family of rich and powerful railway tycoons, are cursed, but there is no such thing as a curse, is there .

It would have been quite useful to have it, as I was struggling to figure out how one branch of the family were related, but that was a minor thing. She works as a freelance Digital Media Producer for clients such as the National Theatre, and Harry Potter West End, and previously worked as a Senior Digital Producer at the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House and Shakespeare’s Globe. De familie Kratzenstein is een heel uitgebreide familie en ik ben Elisa Paganelli dan ook heel dankbaar dat ze de moeite heeft genomen om in naam van Alex een stamboom te tekenen, want ik kon hem gebruiken.

Ross Montgomery, author of Perijee and Me Wildly funny, with hairpin plot bends and inventive characters, this series is firmly on track to become a bestseller. A pretty good adventure story, and personally speaking, I find it to be one of the best in the series so far; while the last book greatly elevated the stakes, this one builds on that foundation by crafting an eerie and memorable atmosphere in the Kranzenstein family home. There's a scene at the end, for example, that is just deliciously tense nailbiting stuff and normally I'd be all 'yeah, whatever' but because it's written by Leonard and Sedgman, it is BRILLIANT. We enjoyed this book as much as we did the rest of the series but our 9-year old who isn’t easily scared (Harry Potters, Star Wars, Nevermore series etc) found this one a bit much and had some nightmares. Of ja, toch wel, één klein dingetje: er werd naar de Franse taal met 'Français' verwezen - dat moet natuurlijk 'français' zijn.

While I don't normally read books for kids, I stumbled upon the first book in this series and it was surprisingly engaging.

As soon as you read the authors' dedication page you know that this isn't going to be your typical train story. We often read this together at bed times and quite often we'd end up with a late night just to read one more chapter, surely a good sign. I think it's actually a children's book, and it was the sort of book that I'd have been very interested In between the ages of 10 and 12.

It was a really nice shakeup from the other books, and exploited the setting brilliantly (cold, dark, snowy mountains that are supposedly haunted! Reminiscent of The Hound of the Baskervilles, this time Hal and Uncle Nat go undercover in the German mountains to investigate a deadly curse. This time, Hal and Uncle Nat find themselves investigating an ancient family curse, a missing will, and a witch who is said to prowl the railway line at Dead Man's Pass. There was something very heart-warming about an uncle and his nephew solving mysteries together too.Harrison Beck undertakes another locomotive mystery in the fourth instalment of Leonard and Sedgman’s thrilling Adventures on Trains series, as a cursed family of railway tycoons high in the German mountains makes for a sinister supernatural mystery. De vertaling is ook nu weer van Anne Douqué, en die heeft zich ook weer goed van haar werk gekweten. Hal is swept up by his Uncle and off into an adventure involving spies, creepy legends and a very fine, rather gothic, funeral train. It adds another layer of danger to the book because they also had to remember their cover while investigating - and Nat has secrets that he's not telling Hal. Like I've said before, I have little to no interest in trains and the like but these books make me care about them.