Pan’s People: The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey (1958)

From looking at Glenn Steward’s striking cover artwork for Josephine Tey’s ‘The Man in the Queue’, I got the feeling it might be one of those mid-20th century explorations of frenzied, urban existentialism and modern man’s alienation from his surroundings and so forth…. but the rather more straight-forward back cover copy soon disavowed me of that idea.

If I haven’t said so previously by the way, huge props to Pan for being one of the only mid-century paperbacks imprints in the world to actually let cover artists clearly sign their work. It makes life so much easier all these years later.