When a man collapses from a stab wound in the queue for a West End performance, Inspector Grant must piece together the truth from a band of disinterested witnesses and the lone possession of the dead man: a loaded gun.
A subversive and underappreciated gem from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, The Man in the Queue exposes the fallibility of circumstantial evidence and paints the picture of a truly human detective, one who can make mistakes despite what seems to be irrefutable logic. In Scotland Yard's Inspector Grant, Josephine Tey subverts the detective genre in a way that will ring true to modern readers who enjoy complex protagonists over one-note symbols of virtue and argumentation. Originally taking the pseudonym Gordon Daviot, Tey would go on to publish five more volumes following Inspector Grant under her own name, each building off this impressive start and even receiving film adaptations from the likes of Alfred Hitchock.
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Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952), better known by her pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author who is celebrated for opening the doors of detective fiction to more contemporary and unconventional ideas like homosexual desire and gender-nonconformity. Though a critical success as an author of detective fiction, her lifelong dream was to write a play that would run on London's West End. She would accomplish this goal with her three plays Richard of Bordeaux, The Laughing Woman, and Queen of Scots, all of which were written and produced under her other pseudonym, Gordon Daviot. While always remaining a great patron of the arts, MacKintosh was an intensely private person who evading publicity at every turn, even going so far as to hide her terminal cancer from her closest friends until after her passing.