The Man in the Queue (Summarized Edition)

First published in 1929, The Man in the Queue launches Inspector Alan Grant with a murder born of urban anonymity: a man stabbed while waiting outside the Woffington Theatre to see the American star Ray Marcable. Grant's chase from London's playhouses to Scotland is less a puzzle-box than a study in faces, chance, and the perils of eyewitness certainty. Tey's lucid, lightly ironic prose and theatr...