2021/059: The Man in the Queue -- Josephine Tey

2021/059: The Man in the Queue -- Josephine Tey

No thorough Englishman used such a weapon. If he used steel at all he took a razor and cut a person’s throat. But his habitual weapon was a bludgeon, and, failing that, a gun. This was a crime that had been planned with an ingenuity and executed with a subtlety that was foreign to an Englishman’s habit of thought. The very femininity of it proclaimed the dago, or at the very least one used to dago habits of life. [p.12]

A man is stabbed in the press of a theatre queue:( no spoilers )