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Obelists En Route

Obelists En Route

King, C. Daly
Penzler, Otto

Hardcover

Series: American Mystery Classics

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN10: 1613166206
ISBN13: 9781613166208
Publisher: American Mystery Classics
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
The discovery of a corpse turns a cross-country train journey into a closed-circle hunt for a killer.

The magnificent Transcontinental Express, showcasing the cutting edge of mid-1930s luxury train travel, is making its first trip from New York to San Francisco. For its record-breaking maiden voyage--coast to coast in three days with no passenger stops--the express carries only invited guests, among them renowned businessmen, physicians, psychologists and even a high-ranking member of the NYPD.

Among refined staterooms, an elegant dining car and a recreation room for bridge, ping-pong and dancing, the vehicle's most lauded feature is the swimming pool car--which is precisely where the waterlogged corpse of a prominent banker is discovered just one day into the journey. Uncertain of the cause of death and fearing negative publicity, the conductor drives on for the West Coast, charging a select group of passengers, including the sharp-witted Dr. Pons, with the task of uncovering what has occurred--even as every new piece of evidence seems to suggest more perplexing possibilities.

Hopelessly rare in first edition and never before published in the United States, Obelists en Route is a brilliantly complex Golden Age mystery from one of the greatest American authors of the period. Besides its intriguing whodunit plot, the book's period detail and locomotive setting make it a welcome rediscovery today.

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