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As regards Josephine Tey's The Man in the Queue, my dislike wasn't founded on "The Dago". That didn't help, but mostly as it played part of the Inspector's attitude. You come closer to my dislike when you speak the author's inconsistency of voice. There was the strange and (it seemed to me) forced and thoroughly unconvincing way that Grant interacted with the police surgeon, there were the strained efforts to impart personality to Superintendent Barker and his "minion". It simply wasn't working for me, so I put it away quite early. I'm hoping Tey relaxed a bit in later books ... I'm about to find out as we read The Daughter of Time for the NLBC.
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