''Trouble Follows Me'' is a spy thriller written in

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

by Kenneth Millar. For this novel, as with his other early work featuring detective Chet Gordon, Millar used his real name—he was to become generally better known as

Ross Macdonald Ross Macdonald was the main pseudonym used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (; December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983). He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featur ...

Plot summary

It's 1945. Ensign Sam Drake attends a party on his last night stationed in Hawaii and meets the woman of his dreams. But before the night is out, her best friend is dead in an upstairs room at the party. It appears to be suicide. The next day Sam starts his leave before receiving a new post. He returns to his home town of Detroit, and decides to check into a connection there between the dead woman and a radical group of black activists. Another death quickly follows and Sam finds himself on a cross-country adventure, haunted by dangerous characters everywhere he turns. ''Trouble Follows Me'' was reprinted by Lion Paperbacks in 1950 and 1955 under the title of ''Night Train'', with cover art that presented it as a "race novel" to capitalize on the Detroit race riot of 1943.

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1946 American novels American thriller novels Novels by Ross Macdonald Novels set in Hawaii Novels set in Detroit Dodd, Mead & Co. books {{Canada-novel-stub