The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron Mccabe

The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron Mccabe

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?

The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor is a weird, funny, perverse exercise in literary messing-aboutIt'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

Though The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor was first published in 1937, the true identity of its author remained a mystery until 1974 when it was discovered that the well-known German sexologist, jazz musician and critic Ernest Borneman was 'Cameron McCabe'. Borneman died in 1995.

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ISBN 13	9781509829811
ISBN 10	1509829814
Title	The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
Author	Cameron Mccabe
Series	Picador Classic
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2016-09-08
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.