The Man in the Queue
by:
Josephine Tey (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099429487 (0099429489)
Publish date: June 25th 2002
Publisher: Arrow
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Inspector Alan Grant (#1)
‘Yes,’ she said; ‘that’s all very well, but look at the long night there’ll be. You never know the minute you’ll waken up hungry and be glad of the sandwiches even if it’s only to pass the time. They’re chicken, and you don’t know when you’ll have chicken again. It’s a terribly poor country, Scotlan...
After reading Josephine Teys mysteries, I thought I'd post some of my thoughts about them.First the positives:They're free.They're well written in general.They're really good mysteries. The minor characters are mostly nice and interesting.To me, they're historic, though I know the author wrote and p...
I've nothing really to say about this except to describe the entire plot which I do not feel like doing and which I will probably forget in about a week anyway. A man is murdered in a queue, but no one knows who he is which makes it hard to determine why he was murdered. Red herrings abound and the ...
bookshelves: summer-2010, mystery-thriller, fraudio, published-1929 Read on June 04, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** Unabridged and read by Steven Thorne. 2.5* Certain nouns that were the vogue back then, grate on our modern ears - 'dago' being the most persistent offender. Of course, anyone who reads t...
Josephine Tey is one of my favorite authors, easily the equal of Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie. Sadly, she wrote only eight mystery novels. I find half of those eight (Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair, Brat Farrar and The Daughter of Time) absolutely brilliant and another (To Love and Be...
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