- Fiction in English, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, London (england), fiction, Fiction
> In 1930s London, actress Estella Lamare is discovered dead on the cutting-room floor of a film studio. The next day, Cameron McCabe finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.
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Open-ended, grave, formally daring and plot-driven.
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Ernest Borneman
- First published
- 1937
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Gregg Press, The Harvill Press
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780575018242
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