The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

**With an introduction by Jonathan Coe/b>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?

A dazzling . . . unrepeatable box of tricks . . . The detective story to end all detective stories

Vorwort
An extraordinary post-modern detective novel from an author who remained a mystery for decades, now relaunched as a Picador Classic.

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

Who is Cameron McCabe? Novelist? Joker? Detective? Victim? Murderer?

Zusammenfassung

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?