Just then a most unexpected figure comes forth to reveal the truth of the stabbing in the queue. Grant's attempts to pursue another possible suspect lead to nothing, and he is almost forced to concede defeat. As the young man is brought before an inquest, Grant expresses his misgivings to his superior but his doubts are brushed aside. Eventually he traces a potential suspect to the boarding house of the dead man and tracks his landlady to a remote hideaway in the west coast of Scotland.Īfter some effort tracking and arresting his man, Grant begins to have doubts as he brings him back to London on a murder charge. Inspector Grant is brought onto the case and he follows several painstaking leads, including one that takes him to Nottingham, without any serious evidence. None of those near to him in the queue appear to have any motive for killing him. Synopsis Ī young man is stabbed in the back with a stiletto dagger while waiting in the queue for one of the final West End performances of a hit musical comedy. It was initially published under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot, and published by Methuen in London and Dutton in New York. It was released during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. It was followed by A Shilling for Candles in 1936. About the Author Josephine Tey began writing full-time after the successful. The first of Josephine Teys Inspector Grant mysteries concerns the murder of a man, standing in a ticket queue for a London musical comedy. It was the first in her series of six novels featuring the Scotland Yard detective Inspector Grant. Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a.
The Man in the Queue is a 1929 detective novel by the British writer Josephine Tey. The Man in the Queue (English Edition) eBook : Tey, Josephine, Barnard.
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