{"product_id":"2026200014157-secondhand-obelists-fly-high","title":"Obelists Fly High","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt thirty thousand feet, murder has nowhere to hide — Obelists Fly High by C. Daly King is a masterwork of golden age detective fiction, placing its cast of suspects and sleuths aboard a transcontinental airliner where a passenger is found dead and the killer must be among those on board. King's protagonist, the unorthodox psychologist Dr. L. Rees Pons, applies rigorous psychological theory to the art of criminal detection, dissecting the motives and mental architecture of every suspect with clinical precision. The novel is as much a treatise on the nascent science of psychology as it is a tightly plotted whodunit, and King weaves both strands together with intellectual bravado.\n\nA Jubilee Reprint selected and introduced by Julian Symons, this edition resurrects one of the most unjustly overlooked voices of the 1930s crime genre, a writer whose ambition far outpaced his contemporary fame. King's prose is cool, methodical, and laced with a dry wit that rewards the patient reader, while his locked-sky-room conceit remains as audacious today as it was upon first publication. For devotees of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr who hunger for something more cerebral and unconventional, this is the discovery that changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161007431899,"sku":"2026200014157-SECONDHAND","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/923ffebf-ef51-4910-a8e3-8dbf2826b868.png?v=1787188881","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014157-secondhand-obelists-fly-high","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}