So I picked this up from a library book sale because it had an old 1940s-ish binding (turns out publishing date is 1946) and I am a sucker for those.  There is an embossed scene of a mountainous valley on the cover, but the author is unknown to me.  We start off with a man with the Scandinavian name of Nils on a train wandering through the Italian pre-WWII countryside.  He ends up being paired in the dining car with an attractive fellow solo passenger, […]