ThankQ for the new thread, MqD!
The Highlander reporting in!
I'm listening to an audiobook of
The Leavenworth Case, a murder mystery by American author Anna Katharine Green and published in 1878. I ran across this...
“She must be found for all that,” said he, “and shall, if I have to send out Q.”
“Q?”
“An agent of mine who is a living interrogation point; so we call him Q, which is short for query.”
I'm only halfway through the book, and this is the only mention of Q so far. So I don't know if they eventually have to call in Q or not. :)
The Leavenworth Case audiobook on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9tBuJBMyP4 To read online or download, The Leavenworth Case on Project Gutenberg.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4047 Anna Katharine Green at Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Katharine_Green