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

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

by Cameron Mc Cabe (Author)

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?

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Picador
Published: 08 Sep 2016

ISBN 10: 1509829814
ISBN 13: 9781509829811
Book Overview: An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic.

Media 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 stories -- Julian Symons
Author Bio
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.