Obelists En Route

First published in 1937, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cross-country train. A highly ingenious, entertaining and unusual tale Daily HeraldThe 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