Status Updates From Obelists en Route (Michael ...

The two sections, where Lord and Pons talk at length about Economics, and then Human Psychology, were a slog, no doubt. And I don't know that there was anything in there functioning as a workable clue. This went on in Obelists at Sea, too, as I recall, and so we get this big thick book. But - we're back on track, and speeding towards San Francisco with more mayhem and suspense bursting forth, after the two shut up.

Loving this last whodunit left in my summer reading project, that is not a novel by John Dickson Carr. Is this the ultimate train-happy Mystery? With respect to the Orient Express and its own distinct unpleasantness, this is the fully immersive railway experience. More visual aids than one would kill for…maps of a train, its route, some of its cars, more of its cars, list of characters, footnotes, Appendix, mayhem…