· The Man in the Queue was the first mystery novel published by Josephine Tey, and the first to feature Inspector Alan Grant. I read this on a whim, looking for something lighter to read at the same time as I was reading The Mirror the Light by Hilary Mantel. The lovely cover of the Collier paperback edition from on my shelf called to me. Complete Works of Josephine Tey by Josephine Tey The Complete Inspector Grant (unabridged) - The Man in the Queue, A Shilling for Candles, To Love and Be Wise, The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey/5(43). Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels including Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant. The first of these, 'The Man in the Queue' () was published under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot, whose name also appears on the title page of another of her novels, 'Kit An Unvarnished History'.
The Man in the Queue was the first mystery novel published by Josephine Tey, and the first to feature Inspector Alan Grant. I read this on a whim, looking for something lighter to read at the same time as I was reading The Mirror the Light by Hilary Mantel. The lovely cover of the Collier paperback edition from on my shelf called to me. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant. The first of these, The Man in the Queue () was published under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot, whose name also appears on the title page of another of her Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July - 13 February ), a Scottish author. Her novel The Daughter of Time was a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower, and named as the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' www.doorway.ru first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under.
In between practice, I read Josephine Tey’s mystery, The Man in the Queue. It was one of those English mysteries I loved and found soothing. It also had an interesting plot that absorbed me. A man is in a line with other people when he suddenly falls down, stabbed with a very fine dagger. Retrospectively, the well hidden clues interspersed in The Man in the Queue could possibly be detected by the reader that would have led to solving the crime, but at the start of Josephine Tey's book everyone is in the dark as Inspector Grant investigates the stabbing death of a man standing in a long, crowded waiting line (queue, if you will) to view the last evening's performance of "Didn't You Know" at the Woffington Theater. A man is murdered while standing in line to obtain a ticket to a stage show. How was he stabbed when no one around him witnessed the crime. MAN IN THE QUEUE by Josephine Tey is as fresh today as it was when it was first written over half a century ago. Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard follows lead after lead only to end up with more questions.
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