Product Description
Obelists En Route
Author: C. Daly King
Format: Paperback
First published in 1937, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cross-country train.
'A highly ingenious, entertaining and unusual tale' — Daily Herald
The luxurious Transcontinental Express, a locomotive journeying coast-to-coast across the United States, is the height of 1930s technology and sophistication. Alongside carriages for dining, drinking and dancing, there's even a swimming pool car. And it's there, just one day into the journey, that the corpse of a banker is found.
With a killer on the train, the passengers soon begin to turn on one another. It's up to the clever Dr Pons - with his sharp wit and knack for impossible puzzles - to get to the bottom of the case, even as every new piece of evidence seems to suggest more perplexing possibilities.
'Ingenious . . . A satisfyingly complex solution to both crimes' — Booklist
'Extravagantly brainy, gloriously dated' — Kirkus
About the Author
C. Daly King (1895-1963) was an American psychologist and detective story writer. He was born in New York City and educated at Yale University. After fighting in World War I, he worked in textiles and in advertising before returning to school to study psychology, with a particular focus on sleep and consciousness. In the 1930s, King published nine books that quickly established him as a master of the Golden Age mystery, but ceased writing fiction with the advent of World War II.
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