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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?
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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:
A dazzling . . . unrepeatable box of tricks . . . The detective story to end all detective stories (Julian Symons)
An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic.
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1860469876
- ISBN 13 9781860469879
- BindingPaperback
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