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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (1937)di Cameron McCabe
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() In her first film, Estella Lamarre was one of two women in a love triangle. It was her big chance and she played her part well, so McCabe, the number two cutter, is shocked when he's told to cut Estella out of the picture. Later Estella ends up dead in the cutting room, and McCabe joins up with Smith, a Scotland Yard detective, to investigate her death. This book was first published in 1937 and it's an oddity. McCabe is author, narrator, detective, and it's possible that he might be a murderer. At first the story just doesn't make sense, but that's because McCabe has left things out. Smith fills in some of the gaps, then other characters fill in some more. There are diversions into existentialism and politics; characters come and go for reasons that don't become clear until near the end. The last quarter of the book is a big surprise, unlike anything that came before. Can't say more in case I ruin it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN COEAn extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic.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? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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