The Man in the Queue
by Josephine Tey
“In a crowd of hundreds, the deadliest weapon is silence.”
When a man is found stabbed to death in a crowded theater queue, Inspector Alan Grant is faced with an impossible puzzle: how did the killer strike in broad daylight without being seen? This masterfully plotted mystery follows Grant as he hunts a shadow through the streets of London, where the truth is hidden in a sea of faces.
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