The Man in the Queue

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 ...