Obelists Fly High (Dover Mystery Classics), by C. Daly King
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"A very thrilling story … [with] a real surprise midway in the book, and a double-barreled shock at the end … the reader's interest is never allowed to flag." ― The New York Times.Captain Michael Lord of the New York City Police is the target of desperate shots fired on board a twin-engine plane, where a premeditated murder has already taken place. Will the dashing detective survive the assault? Will anyone emerge alive from the now-plummeting aircraft? And who killed the famous surgeon that the captain was guarding?This ingeniously constructed novel begins with an epilogue, concludes with a prologue, and offers a "Clue Finder" that reveals forty hints even the sharpest armchair detective may have missed. Originally published in 1935, this long-unavailable thriller dates from the Golden Age of detective fiction, when mysteries were judged by the cleverness of their crimes and the resourcefulness of their sleuths. The twisting plot, impossible murder, "locked-room" setting, and remarkable surprises elevate Obelists Fly High to the level of the best of Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie.
Obelists Fly High (Dover Mystery Classics), by C. Daly King- Amazon Sales Rank: #2331980 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-18
- Released on: 2015-02-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.26" h x .61" w x 6.30" l, .63 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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"A very thrilling story … [with] a real surprise midway in the book, and a double-barreled shock at the end … the reader's interest is never allowed to flag."―The New York Times.Captain Michael Lord of the New York City Police is the target of desperate shots fired on board a twin-engine plane, where a premeditated murder has already taken place. Will the dashing detective survive the assault? Will anyone emerge alive from the now-plummeting aircraft? And who killed the famous surgeon that the captain was guarding?This ingeniously constructed novel begins with an epilogue, concludes with a prologue, and offers a "Clue Finder" that reveals forty hints even the sharpest armchair detective may have missed. Originally published in 1935, this long-unavailable thriller dates from the Golden Age of detective fiction, when mysteries were judged by the cleverness of their crimes and the resourcefulness of their sleuths. The twisting plot, impossible murder, "locked-room" setting, and remarkable surprises elevate Obelists Fly High to the level of the best of Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie.Dover (2015) republication of the edition originally published by William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., London, 1935.See every Dover book in print atwww.doverpublications.com
About the Author
American author and psychologist C. Daly King (1895–1963) was educated at Newark University, Yale, and Columbia. In addition to several psychology texts, he published seven mysteries at the height of the golden age of detective fiction. King coined the term "obelist" and uses it in this novel to characterize someone who harbors suspicions.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Great fun By Kenneth Umbach Entertaining for the story and characters, but especially charming as a portrait of a cross-country commercial airline flight in the 1930s. Have times ever changed since a 10-passenger plane was considered large! The story has some far-fetched aspects, but was great fun nonetheless. The author has even provided a list of clues, with page and line references, at the end of the book. Nice touch.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Too clever for its own good By Douglas R. Wieringa Amos Cutter, a surgeon (get it?), is about to embark on a cross country flight to perform a life-saving operation on his brother, the Secretary of State, when he receives a very specific death threat. He enlists the help of detective Michael Lord for protection. Lord, Cutter, and 10 others board a small transport for the flight. It is 1935. While the plane is airborne, Cutter is killed in front of all passengers, but no one knows who the murderer is. It's a locked room mystery, and twists and turns follow.The problem with books like this is that the only way the author can make his exceedingly clever plot work is to have the characters behave as real people would never behave. For example, Lord's plan to protect Cutter, which is essential to the many twists that follow, is ludicrous. And at several points in the story, Lord fails to take straightforward actions to investigate the murder or to protect Cutter or the other passengers. The passengers seem unconcerned about sharing a cross-country flight with a murderer and only pop out of the background as necessary to feed information into Lord's deductive process (which is outlined in tiresome detail). Lord's sidekick, a psychologist and fellow passenger, provides tedious, outdated, and absurdly detailed psychological analyses based on little information. Motives, when revealed, don't make much sense.Some people consider this to be a "fair play" mystery, because the clues are there, and the author actually goes so far as to point them out at the end of the book. But when the characters are living is a surreal world where the rules are driven by the author's need to support the highly improbable plot, when something seems amiss the reader can't tell why. Is it a clue, or just weirdness necessary to advance the plot? How can you assess motivation when characters don't behave like real people? When misdirection and red herrings are piled on top of each other, how can you tell what's real? The deductive process basically becomes a guessing game.Bottom line: Obelists Fly High was intriguing enough to keep me reading to the end, but is too complicated and clever for its own good.
9 of 14 people found the following review helpful. C. Daly King Flies High By A Customer An excellent book, with a smash-finish. The author, a psychologist as was his detective's Watson (Capt. Michael Lord's Dr. Love Rees Pons, to be precise), has devised a murder tale of immense complexity, dealing with the murder of a sexually possessive physician (and brother to an important American politician) on board a plane after receiving death-threats. The characterisation is good, if not excellent, but the dialogue is apposite to the characters, and the theories concerning the impossible murder on the part of an English novelist are good. Despite an alibi business which would have made Freeman Wills Crofts drool with envy (though it's not that dull,) the book must be one of the masterpieces of the Van Dine school - and, taking into consideration the fact that the Van Dine school included such people as S. S. Van Dine and Ellery Queen, as well as the awful Rex Stout, it must therefore be excellent. Read it!
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