The Man in the Queue

The Man in the Queue is a classic Golden Age detective novel by Josephine Tey, first published under her pseudonym Gordon Daviot. When a man named Albert Sorrell is stabbed and killed while waiting in line for standing room at a West End musical comedy, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard takes over the case.

The victim has no identification, no clear motive against him, and was surrounded by people who saw nothing unusual — until it was too late. Tey's meticulous plotting makes this one of the defining fair-play whodunits of her career.