The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
08 September 2016Imprint: Picador
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...
Details
08 September 2016288 pages
9781509829828Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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 storiesJulian Symons
