The Man In The Queue
A Detective, Mystery, European Literature book. The jury, having swallowed at one nauseating gulp the business...
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- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780099429487 / 99429489
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So Grant betook himself through the sunny, busy morning to Waterloo, trailing a little cloud of discontent behind him as he went. As he stepped from the warm pavement into the cool vault of the best but saddest of all London stationsthe very name of it reeks of endings and partingsgloom sat on his face like a portent. Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue // The jury, having swallowed at one nauseating gulp the business of viewing the body, had settled into their places with that air of conscious importance and simulated modesty which belongs to those initiated into a mystery. Josephine Tey, Man in the Queue // The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious. Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue //
This is the first Josephine Tey mystery, featuring Inspector Alan Grant. The novel begins on a March evening in London, where there are long queues outside the many theatres, including the Woffington; currently playing the long running show, Didnt You Know? This is coming to the end of a long run and so the crowds are intense, with... Free download at Project Gutenberg AustraliaI just realized this is the first book of the Inspector Alan Grant series. As the previous book I've read this week, A Schilling for Candles, the plot is captivating and the investigation work follows the masters of the mystery genre. There is one more book of this series to be read, To Love... I expected to like this a lot. Golden Age crime fiction, I'm pretty sure my mother mentioned liking it, etc, etc. But I couldn't get past the endlessracism,and the general feeling that Josephine Tey would be a men's rights activist now. I mean, a woman on the stage overshadows her male co-stars, and yet the whole tone is not, wow, her...
