Curtain call, or, The distinguished thing
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anthony Quinn
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780099593232
Subjects: Fiction; History
Other titles: Distinguished thing
Description: 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.