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Curtain call, or, The distinguished thing : a novel / Anthony Quinn.
Van Pelt Library PR6117.U36 C87 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quinn, Anthony, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 389 pages ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Distinguished thing
- Place of Publication:
- London : Vintage, 2015.
- Summary:
- On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she has seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed 'the Tie-Pin Killer' she realises that unless she acts quickly, more women will die...From the glittering murk of Soho's underworld, to the grease paint and ghost-lights of theatreland, Curtain Call is a poignant and gripping story about love and death in a society dancing towards the abyss.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2015.
- ISBN:
- 9780099593232
- 0099593238
- OCLC:
- 913793833
- Publisher Number:
- 99975109836
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