The Man in the Queue
Author | : Josephine Tey |
Publisher | : Pushkin Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2023-03-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781782279617 |
ISBN-13 | : 178227961X |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A clever mystery classic from one of Britain's greatest and most original crime writers In the packed queue for a popular West End Theatre in 1920s London, the crowd surges forward as the doors open at last... But as they do so, one of their number falls to the ground - a man, stabbed in the back with a stiletto while people jostled for position in the throng. There is nothing in the man's clothes or wallet to identify him, and nothing in his pockets but a revolver... Who is he and who killed him before melting away unseen into the night? Inspector Alan Grant investigates, and soon is engaged in a breathless manhunt that will lead him from London all the way to the Scottish highlands and back, before the mystery is finally resolved in a way that not even he can anticipate.