The Man Who Didn't Fly

Name: The Man Who Didn't Fly
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Margot Bennett
ISBN: 9781407997520

Author: Margot Bennett

Series: British Library Crime Classics

Narrator: Seán Barrett

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 02/01/2022

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy

Synopsis

Four men had arranged to fly to Dublin. When their aeroplane descended as a fireball into the Irish Sea, only three of them were on board. With the identities of the passengers lost beneath the waves, a tense and perplexing investigation begins to determine the living from the dead, with scarce evidence to follow beyond a few snippets of overheard conversation and one family’s patchy account of the three days prior to the flight. Who was the man who didn’t fly? What did he have to gain? And would he commit such an explosive murder to get it? First published in 1955, Margot Bennett’s ingenious mystery remains an innovative and thoroughly entertaining inversion of the classic whodunit.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anissa

My goodness, this was tedious. Four days to read a book with fewer than 300 pages. To be sure there's a good mystery in this story. A flight to Dublin is chartered to fly four men. It takes off and unfortunately goes down into the ocean in a ball of flames. It's then realized that only three men fle......more

Goodreads review by Adelyne

I honestly have not the slightest clue what I have just read, and that's not for lack of trying. I know that sometimes books written this long ago require more concentration on my part to follow the plot, because the language usage is not quite what I'm used to, and given the accolades on the back o......more

Goodreads review by B.V.

Scottish author Margot Bennett was born in 1912 and worked first first as a copywriter in the UK and Australia and then as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War before turning to writing. Her output in crime fiction was relatively small, yet successful: The Man Who Didn't Fly was shortlisted for the......more