| | The man in the queue (Chivers Audio Bks) ISBN 0745141617
by Josephine Tey. read by Stephen Thorne 6 Tapes. Tey deftly gets her hooks into the reader: a dead man is found in a London theatre queue. Who was he? And who stabbed him with the jewel-encrusted dagger? Inspector Grant of the Yard deduces from the flashy weapon that the killer must be a “dago” — and the racial stereotype goes unchallenged by his colleagues. Engrossing as much for what it reveals about inter-war society as for its “golden age” detective plot, Tey’s story finds in Thorne a reader with an ear acutely attuned to the old order of British accents (Chivers £15.50, 7 hours 45 minutes, unabridged; KR SUnday Times book of the week 15/4/2002
Price: £29.99 (excluding V.A.T. at 17.5%)
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