The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (Picador Classic, 49) - Softcover

McCabe, Cameron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509829814 ISBN 13: 9781509829811

Publisher: Picador, 2016

Synopsis

With an introduction by Jonathan Coe

1930s King's Cross, London.

When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio, Cameron McCabe finds himself at the centre of a police investigation. There are multiple suspects, multiple confessors and, as more people around him die, McCabe begins to perform his own amateur sleuth-work, followed doggedly by the mysterious Inspector Smith.

But then, abruptly, McCabe's account ends . . .

Who is Cameron McCabe? Is he victim? Murderer? Novelist? Joker?

And if not McCabe, who is the author of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor?

About this title

Review:

The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor is a weird, funny, perverse exercise in literary messing-about. It's a murder mystery that pulls the rug from under the reader, then pulls the floor from under the rug, then questions whether the floor was even there. It's a great, and baffling, experience, and the less you know about it beforehand, the better. (Mark Watson)

A dazzling . . . unrepeatable box of tricks . . . The detective story to end all detective stories (Julian Symons)

Book Description:

An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1509829814
• ISBN 13: 9781509829811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288