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The Paper Cell
Louise Hutcheson
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Description for The Paper Cell
Hardcover. A series of standalone crime novellas, each with a literary bent. In 1950s London, a literary agent finds fame when he secretly steals a young woman's brilliant novel manuscript and publishes it under his own name, Lewis Carson. Two days after their meeting, the woman is found strangled on Peckham Rye Common: did Lewis purloin the manuscript as an act of callous opportunism, or as the spoils of a calculated murder? When a dead body is found at a remote writers' retreat, the local police and coroner quickly rule the cause of death as suicide. But the other writers at the retreat embark on an evening of squabbling about the death and its motive.. Series: CONTRABAND POCKET CRIME COLLEC. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
From the publisher of Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project, the first in a new series of distinctive, standalone crime stories, each with a literary bent. In 1950s London, a literary agent finds fame when he secretly steals a young woman's brilliant novel manuscript and publishes it under his own name, Lewis Carson. Two days after their meeting, the woman is found strangled on Peckham Rye Common: did Lewis purloin the manuscript as an act of callous opportunism, or as the spoils of a calculated murder?
From the publisher of Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project, the first in a new series of distinctive, standalone crime stories, each with a literary bent. In 1950s London, a literary agent finds fame when he secretly steals a young woman's brilliant novel manuscript and publishes it under his own name, Lewis Carson. Two days after their meeting, the woman is found strangled on Peckham Rye Common: did Lewis purloin the manuscript as an act of callous opportunism, or as the spoils of a calculated murder?
Product Details
Publisher
Saraband
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
CONTRABAND POCKET CRIME COLLEC
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Glasgow, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910192832
SKU
V9781910192832
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Ref
99-99
About Louise Hutcheson
Louise Hutcheson has a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow. She works in broadcast and digital media and is a freelance editor who has edited a number of crime novels and other fiction. Louise also created and runs a highly respected review site for new fiction.
Reviews for The Paper Cell
A fascinating narrative exploring guilt, secrecy and the impact of lifestyle choices in a very different 1950s society... A modern-day Charles Dickens meets Agatha Christie with a little twist of Oscar Wilde thrown in to spice it up! Chapter in My Life; A lovely little book... [Its] strength is in the build-up, and it is really a character ... Read more