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The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)

Josephine Tey

Start date: June 1, 2016

Finish date: June 30, 2016

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Nov 29, 2017 Gillian Kevern rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: detective, police-procedural, mystery, queens-of-crime, 1920s

I think this was my first Josephine Tey—I know, shame on me. I picked this one up from the Friends of Ngaio Marsh book sale, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The pacing seemed a little slow, and there was some head-hopping and two unexpected first person interruptions, but I'm willing to overlook those. ...more

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