De vertaling is ook nu weer van Anne Douqué, en die heeft zich ook weer goed van haar werk gekweten. 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. From the beginning I was hooked, wanting to solve the mystery and, as usual, I enjoyed the twists and turns along the way.

Embark on a thrilling fourth adventure in the bestselling, prize-winning Adventures on Trains series from M. 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. Of ja, toch wel, één klein dingetje: er werd naar de Franse taal met 'Français' verwezen - dat moet natuurlijk 'français' zijn. I found this family extremely difficult to keep up with, and I'm still not quite sure who was related to who. This is a story about deception, about detective work, the importance of learning other languages, about friendship and family, about secrets and codes, and most importantly about trains.Karakters worden op slimme wijze geïntroduceerd en er wordt met net genoeg informatie verwezen naar avonturen uit het verleden zodat het verhaal ook goed te volgen is zonder de vorige delen te hebben gelezen. With danger and warring motives at every junction, will Hal and Uncle Nat be able to crack the case before their time in Germany is up? Danger at Dead Man's Pass is the 4th-installment of my favorite Middle Grade series, Adventures on Trains.

De plot op zich is ook bepaald niet simplistisch te noemen, dus je krijgt wel waar voor je geld en tijd. As soon as you read the authors' dedication page you know that this isn't going to be your typical train story. Though, unlike previous books where I only worked it out at the last moment, this time I honed in on the culprit straight away. I did miss being on the train the whole time, I feel like that always adds a nice closed circle, or even locked room element, to the mystery. Nat makes a point very early on about how, as they're going undercover, Hal can't draw the way he usually does with all his supplies - in case it gives him away.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 . Each time, the general premise is the same: Hal and his uncle go somewhere on a train and solve crime. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.