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Title: Dead at the Take-Off
Author: Lester Dent
Narrator: Gary Telles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-24-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Chance Molloy pursues a crooked senators daughter aboard an airplane, but their flight is turbulent in more ways than one
In the 1940s, air travel is still in its infancy. Seats turn into private sleepers, passengers smoke in flight, and its no sweat to carry weapons aboard. Chance Molloy, a self-made airline owner, is dealt a blow when his plans to establish a passenger airline in South America are thwarted by a corrupt US senator. At the news, Molloys brother, a partner in the venture, kills himself. Seeking some kind of justice, Molloy boards Flight 14 from New York to New Mexico with one goal in mind: to get acquainted with the senators daughter, Janet Lord, a passenger on the plane. But her charms are greater than he anticipates, and Molloys simple plan quickly becomes complicated.
Also on board are three of the senators henchmen, a corpse disguised as a passenger, and Molloys stewardess ex-girlfriend. Soon Molloy realizes that this flight will reach a destination he hadnt anticipated.
Members Reviews:
A thriller with the velocity of a bullet
This rescued thriller classic has the velocity of a bullet; three killers, a dead body, a former girlfriend and the senator's daughter perhaps a new one all on a New York flight to New Mexico, Malloy has his work cut out for him, as he endeavors to reveal the crooked senator's attempt to destroy his fledging airline. Thank you Mysterious Press for rediscovering this lost classic.
Solid old-school classics, 3.5/5
Lester Dent, who's best known, to every enlightened SF and adventure novels aficionado, or simply readers with big experience, primarily as a chronicler of the adventures of the cheerful and resourceful Doc Savage and his group of friends-colleagues, had wrote also six novels about Chance Molloy, amateur detective, who's often forced by a number of reasons to investigate some complex and deadly crimes. This series by Lester Dent, unfortunately, is not so well-known.
The novel "Dead at the Take-Off" is the first in a Molly sequences. The book is definitely a "hard-boiled" story, and now, after so many years, and with the knowledge of an impressive list of the classics of the genre ("hard-boiled"), it is quite possible (and needful) to include it in the Golden Fund of the genre, it's very well deserved. To say the least of it.
In the center of the plot is a very complex, well-conceived, and requirable of a high degree of caution and prudence, operation conducted by Molloy. It aims to revenge Senator Lord for sneaky stab in the back, that had put business plans of Molloy brothers on the brink of destruction - they wanted to organize their airline company. In addition, as a result of his mean deed, Senator Lord had thus caused the suicide of one of the brothers. Now Molloy is driven by only one idea - to repay the senator. But this novel is not just another book about "avenging hero," image of which is so popular in some series of books. No, this book have just the "Gordian knot" of intrigue, unfulfilled plans, projects and goals of characters.
The narrative differs enviable smoothness of a manner of writing, and certainly has a number of recognizable "details", which are often met in any self-respecting classics of "hard-boiled", but the author knows when to stop and not to cross the border, beyond which lies the path to self-parody, and only oblivion as to a literary work.
