I was surprised by how much I liked this one. Who murdered this man? What could the motive be for his murder? Why didn't those behind him notice anything? Who is this man? How could people spend hours in line together and not notice the people around them-the people before and behind them.

When a man is murdered in a ticket line for a show, it's up to Inspector Alan Grant and others at Scotland Yard to solve the crime. It was between seven and eight o'clock on a March evening, and all over London the bars were being drawn back from pit and gallery doors. Inspector Alan Grant investigates, and soon is engaged in a breathless manhunt that will lead him from London all the way to the Scottish highlands and back, before the mystery is finally resolved in a way that not even he can anticipate. Who is he and who killed him before melting away unseen into the night? There is nothing in the man's clothes or wallet to identify him, and nothing in his pockets but a revolver. But as they do so, one of their number falls to the ground - a man, stabbed in the back with a stiletto while people jostled for position in the throng. 9781782279600 The Man in the Queue 28.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/crime-thrillers /shop/books/fiction/contemporary In the packed queue for a popular West End Theatre in 1920s London, the crowd surges forward as the doors open at last.

In the packed queue for a popular West End Theatre in 1920s London, the crowd surges forward as the doors open at last.

The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey