Vultures in the Sky
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A customs agent must track down a killer on a train barreling across the Texas border into Mexico . . .
When a train leaves Laredo en route to Mexico City, the trip turns terrifying as one passenger after another falls victim to murder. Will anyone make it to their destination alive?
Fortunately, Hugh Rennert—US Customs agent and amateur detective—is on board, and his investigation will proceed full steam ahead . . .
"You won't go wrong in giving Todd Downing a try." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
First published in 1935, this expertly crafted mystery from Downing (1902 1974) focuses on nine passengers aboard a train from Monterrey, Mexico, to Mexico City. The news of an impending rail strike and conjecture about a recent kidnapping case, in which a young boy died, are their main topics of conversation shortly before a man dies mysteriously while the train is passing through a tunnel. Another traveler is later found dead in her ransacked compartment. U.S. customs agent Hugh Rennert takes charge and declares: "I think the time has come for all of us to put aside our circumlocutions and acknowledge openly the fact that one of us in this car is a murderer." Everyone is hiding something, and everyone is afraid of being exposed. The evocative descriptions of the characters and the Mexican landscape, as well as the creeping claustrophobia and fear that imbue the atmosphere on the train, keep tension high. Clues are fairly displayed amid the many well-developed red herrings. This is another winning entry in the American Mystery Classics series.
