""You run into thugs and bandits wherever you go," Anders says to his friend Kalle Blomkvist. And Anders is right about that. Admittedly, the master detective has now put aside the habit of suspecting every other person in his surroundings, but when he and Anders and Eva-Lotta during a night trip to the castle ruins with her own eyes sees little Rasmus kidnapped by kidnappers, then he takes up the fight without hesitation.The book is illustrated by Kerstin Thorvall in the first editions, but was later also illustrated by Eric Palmquist with a cover by Ilon Wikland."