Obelists En Route

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A cross-country train journey where everyone is a suspect. An investigator with a love of puzzles. A Golden Age classic, perfect for summer.

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

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781804999479
Published: June 2026

Number of pages: 384
Width: 127 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 26 mm

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd