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The last of the ghost stories by the duo of Manning Coles and very different from the three Latimer books, This book finds us in a small castle along the Rhine, A movie company is using the castle as a set with the permission of the Graf and in need of a leading man when the perfect person walks into the picture so to speak.
This book is filled with laughter and love and mystery as a long dead Graf ancestor of the current one and his servant act in a film and adjust to life in the's as opposed to's.
The humor is sometimes slapstick, sometimes not intentional but happening because of the further time distance from the's to the's, As a young woman, it was one of the few books set in Germany that was humorous, a mystery, and provided a positive view of postwar Germany.
An enjoyable read, particularly because this books reminds the reader of the differences that exist from's to's to's, Great to own and reread, The Far Travelleris a light and frothy tale by the creator of British spy Tommy Hambledon, Manning Coles gives us the Graf van Grauhegel and his servant Franz who, after being dead nearly a century and haunting the castle in the interval, rematerialize in order to right an old wrong so they may finally rest in peace.
In the meantime, they also manage to star in a romantic musical movie based on the Graf's life and filmed at the Graf's castle on the Rhine as well as unmask a fraudulent medium.


When George Whatmore's star falls down the staircase at the Castel

Grauhegel, the director is at his wits' end, Where is he going to find an actor who can take the role of ath Century German count at such short notice What lucktwo young men, the very image of a German aristocrat and his servant, arrive on the scene just in time.
In fact "Herr Reisenfern" is a little too goodtrying to tell Whatmore that "the Graf would never have done that" and "No, no, nothat's not the way it was.
" But things soon settle down and Whatmore is ecstatic with the way his new star improves on the dueling scenewhy, one think he really was an expert swordsman from theth Century.


It is also interesting how the castle staff treat Reisenfern with so much deferencethe atmosphere of the play must be rubbing off on them.
Or could it be they really do recognize the castle's ancestral master Things get very interesting indeed when a suit of armor becomes animated courtesy of the ghostly Franz, a ancient treasure is uncovered and then vanishes before the witnesses' eyes golden coins secreted in the ghostly pockets of the Graf and his servant, and a family ringlong thought lost when the Graf lost his life.
The Graf and Franz were drowned on the night the German noble was rumored to have married his lady loveand ever since the family has denied the woman her place in the family and even told tales to her discredit.


The Graf must convince his descendantthe current Grafto restore his lady's honor and bring her remains to rest beside her husband, Only then will the Graf be able to quit his ghostly ramblings along the castle corridors and join his wife in the great beyond.
Speaking of the great beyondthe Graf who knows "the other side" well also takes the time to reveal a spiritualist for the fake he is.
Two village boys, set on pranking the local constable by coating his goat in luminous paint, unknowingly help the Graf give the fraudulent medium the scare of his life.


This is a delightful ghostly romplight on mystery, but full of fun and frolic, Coles gives the reader likeable characters who partake in crazy antics which may be unrealistic, but are dazzling funny, Franz chasing housemaids while clanking about in armor the Graf's display of swordsmanship their ghostly escape from jail the befuddlement of black marketeers and the unmasking of charlatansthis could easily have been made into a comedic action movie with Cary Grant in the part of the Graf.


First posted on my blog sitelinkMy Reader's Block, Please request permission before reposting, Thanks. It was interesting, not at all what I expected, It's about a couple of ghosts and some antics they get into while trying to right a wrong in a small German town, guessing around the's or's Sweet little ghost story The Herr Graf was a familiar sight to the residents of the Rhineland village of Grauhugel.
After all he'd been walking the halls of the local castle at night and occasionally nodding to the servants ever since he drowned someyears ago.
No one was the least bit alarmed by the Graf's spectral walks, The castle's major domo found it all quite comforting, After all the young Graf had been quite popular while he was alive, When the actor hired to play the dead Graf in a movie is felled by an accident, the film's director is overjoyed to come across a talented replacement who seems to have been born to play the part, little realizing that the Graf and his faithful servant who perished in the same accident had only recently decided to materialize in public.
The Graf isn't stagestruck. He's back among the living to correct an old wrong, Along the way, he adds a bit of realism to a cinematic duel, befuddles a blackmarketeer, breaks out of jail, and exposes a charlatan spiritualist.
At the same time, his amorous servant Franz is in the grip of an awkward dilemma, What if he's pursuing the granddaughters of village maidens he dallied with eight decades in the past The Far Traveller is one of the most charming and sweet stories.


OOps, will finish later, From sitelink Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: sitelink Manning Coles is the pseudonym of two British writers, sitelink Adelaide Frances Oke Manningand Cyril Henry Coles, who wrote many spy thrillers from the earlys through the earlys.
The fictional protagonist inof their books was Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon, who works for the Foreign Office, Manning and Coles were neighbors in East Meon, Hampshire, Coles worked for British Intelligence in both the World Wars, Manning worked for the War Office during World War I, Their first books were fairly realistic and with a touch of grimness their postwar books perhaps suffered from an excess of lightheartedness and whimsy.
They also wrote a number of humorous novels about modern day ghosts, From sitelink Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: sitelink Manning Coles is the pseudonym of two British writers, sitelink Adelaide Frances Oke Manningand Cyril Henry Coles, who wrote many spy thrillers from the earlys through the earlys.
The fictional protagonist inof their books was Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon, who works for the Foreign Office, Manning and Coles were neighbors in East Meon, Hampshire, Coles worked for British Intelligence in both the World Wars, Manning worked for the War Office during World War I, Their first books were fairly realistic and with a touch of grimness their postwar books perhaps suffered from an excess of lightheartedness and whimsy.
They also wrote a number of humorous novels about modern day ghosts, some of them involving ghostly cousins named Charles and James Latimer, These novels were published in England under the pseudonym of sitelink Francis Gaite but released in the United States under the sitelink Manning Coles byline.
Many of the original exploits were based on the real life experiences of Coles, who lied about his age and enlisted under an assumed name in a Hampshire regiment during World War I while still a teenager.
He eventually became the youngest officer in British intelligence, often working behind German lines, due to his extraordinary ability to master languages, Coles hadsons Michael and Peter, who were identical twins and who are both still alive, living in the UK and the Ghost stories were based on the tales he used to tell his young sons when he was 'back from his travels'.
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