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Availability:In StockContributor:C. Daly King, Otto Penzler (Introduction by)Series:American Mystery ClassicsPublish date:4/1/2025Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:American Mystery ClassicsISBN-13:9781613166192ISBN-10:1613166192UPC:9781613166192Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Private Investigators, TraditionalSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCVZYTSQ9D
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:American Mystery ClassicsISBN-13:9781613166192ISBN-10:1613166192UPC:9781613166192Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Private Investigators, TraditionalSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCVZYTSQ9D
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.

Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City's Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.
Publisher: American Mystery Classics

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