Spot on... Charles Sobhraj didn't operate out of the Boston Inn.
He had a flat in Kanit House and his partner-in-crime, Ajay Chowdury was based at the Malaysia Hotel from where they met many of their victims.
Jailed in India after his luck ran out in 1976, his story has been written about and filmed many times as an ongoing criminal adventure.
He's still alive as far as I know. Recent information about him is hard to find. Maybe some members could give an update.
Those who were here in the late 1970's will remember the large numbers of Thais - and many foreigners - who were con-artists of one type or another. Maybe not homicidal nutcases like Sobhraj, but just as clever at parting you from your money, your valuables, or your passport.
It was all part of the journey and there was nothing "sentimental" about it.
When I first came here in 1978 I knew what to expect because I had done the Hippie Trail two years earlier with a friend, riding two-up on his BMW 650, so I had already graduated cum laude.