Danger at Dead Man's Pass (Adventures on Train)

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We were spoilt for choice in this book with sleeper trains, the Metro, personal steam engines on branch lines and even model trains. Baron Essenbach, who hired them, gives the pair information and asks them to investigate a suspicious death. It was a really nice shakeup from the other books, and exploited the setting brilliantly (cold, dark, snowy mountains that are supposedly haunted! I read the first three books in the series in the space of a week and was already desperate for the next. Although I'm still interested in continuing this series, this story was probably the worst in the series.

She spent her early career in the music industry running Setanta Records, an independent record label, and managing bands, most notably The Divine Comedy. The attention to detail over this is brilliant, because there is no difference in line strength in the drawings - it is done with cross-hatchings rather than the style of the earlier books which mimics different pencil strengths. Danger at Dead Man's Pass is the 4th-installment of my favorite Middle Grade series, Adventures on Trains.Uncle Nat largely fades to the background, and personally, that's for the best; Hal's relationship with the kids is fun to watch, and while a larger cast means he (and consequently, we) have less time to build ties to any of the characters introduced as we have in previous iterations, the side-characters are still largely memorable and play their own role in the story without seeming like fluff pieces there to drift about. Elisa Paganelli was born in Italy and since childhood, hasn’t been able to resist the smell of paper and pencils. De vertaling is ook nu weer van Anne Douqué, en die heeft zich ook weer goed van haar werk gekweten.

I found this family extremely difficult to keep up with, and I'm still not quite sure who was related to who. I liked the twists this one had to it, including wondering if there was going to be a fantasy element, or would it be explained? Wildly funny, with hairpin plot bends and inventive characters, this series is firmly on track to become a bestseller.The Adventures on Trains series has been one of my favourite discoveries of the last few years, so I was thrilled to receive an ARC of Danger at Dead Man’s Pass. There's lots to unravel within the book that will entertain 9 years to 11 year old children, which it is pitched at perfectly for. From a creaking spooky old house at the foot of the Harz mountains, they take the Kratzenstein family's funeral train to the peak of the Brocken Mountain. Embark on a thrilling fourth adventure in the bestselling, prize-winning Adventures on Trains series from M. This adventure seems a little more serious to Hal, and it doesn’t help that Uncle Nat is behaving oddly too!

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.I particularly liked the inclusion of some new background on Uncle Nat that should make for some interesting plot developments going forward and keep the series fresh.

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Na twee boeken die zich verder weg afspeelden, blijft Dodemansrit weer wat dichter bij huis en rijden we door naar de top van de Brockenbahn in de Duitse Harz, een hele streek die ik nog graag wil bezoeken en waar dan ook zeker een rit met een van de bekendste stoomtreinritten ter wereld nog op mijn lijstje staat. It was wonderful to join Hal and Uncle Nat on another journey, and make friends with another group of children.