{"product_id":"obelists-en-route-by-c-daly-king-9781804999479","title":"Obelists En Route","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cross-country train journey where everyone is a suspect. An investigator with a love of puzzles. A Golden Age classic, perfect for summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1937, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cross-country train.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eObelists En Route\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly ingenious, entertaining and unusual tale - Daily Herald.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Ingenious . . . A satisfyingly complex solution to both crimes' - Booklist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Extravagantly brainy, gloriously dated' - Kirkus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976731607276,"sku":"9781804999479","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781804999479-obelists-en-route.jpg?v=1784697861","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/obelists-en-route-by-c-daly-king-9781804999479","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}