A festive atmosphere envelops the line of people waiting for one of the last showings of a popular London musical comedy. Excitement is so big, and crowd is so large that people are being carried rather than walking. As the line eventually reaches the box office one man drops on his knees and slowly spreads on the floor. People jump to help, thinking he had fainted, but get horrified when they see a knife stuck in his back. There are so many witnesses, but nobody saw anything and nobody can tell when it happened as the man has been held upright for a while, carried by the moving crowd. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is summoned to investigate the case. Known for his wit and guile Inspector Grant will have to deal with a lot of false leads and clues, which will take him all the way to Scotland, in order to solve this mysterious murder case.
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Josephine Tey. The Man in the Queue (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
The Man in the Queue (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. MURDER
Chapter 2. INSPECTOR GRANT
Chapter 3. DANNY MILLER
Chapter 4. RAOUL LEGARDE
Chapter 5. DANNY AGAIN
Chapter 6. THE LEVANTINE
Chapter 7. THINGS MOVE
Chapter 8. MRS. EVERETT
Chapter 9. GRANT GETS MORE INFORMATION THAN HE EXPECTED
Chapter 10. THE BURST TO THE NORTH
Chapter 11. CARNINNISH
Chapter 12. CAPTURE
Chapter 13. MARKING TIME
Chapter 14. THE STATEMENT
Chapter 15. THE BROOCH
Chapter 16. MISS DINMONT ASSISTS
Chapter 17. SOLUTION
Chapter 18. CONCLUSION
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As he had hoped, this line of argument was a success. After a little hesitation the girl said, “Let me go and see if I can persuade her.” Her report of the inspector’s charms must have been a rose-coloured one, for she came back in less time than he had dared to hope and took him up to her sister’s room, where he had an interview with a tearful woman who protested that she had not even noticed the man until he had fallen, and whose wet eyes regarded him continually with a dreadful curiosity. Her mouth was hidden behind a barricade of handkerchief which she kept pressed to it. Grant wished that she would take it down for a moment. He had a theory that mouths gave away more than eyes—certainly where women were concerned.
