Danger at Dead Man’s Pass
Danger at Dead Man’s Pass is the fourth instalment of the bestselling Adventures On Trains series. Hal and Uncle Nat answer a cry for help from an old friend, and take a trans-European railway journey to the Harz mountains in Germany, where they go undercover the solve the mystery of an old family curse.
A mysterious letter from an old friend asks Hal and Uncle Nat to help investigate a spooky supernatural mystery. 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 . . .?
Hal and Nat take the night train to Berlin and go undercover. From a creaking old house at the foot of the Harz mountains, they take the Kratzenstein family's funeral train to the peak of the Brocken Mountain. Can Hal uncover the secrets of the Brocken railway and the family curse before disaster strikes?
Praise for Adventures On Trains:
“If Agatha Christie had written for children, it might have read something like this”
“A chuffing triumph”
“A terrific read”
“Wonderful”
“Pacey and intensely satisfying”
“A brilliant detective story”
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The Adventures on Trains series is published in the UK and US by Macmillan, and is licensed to fifteen countries around the world, including China, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latin America, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain and Sweden.
TV and film rights are currently available.
M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman. Image: Jamie Isbell