Curtain Call
A Fiction, Historical, Crime book. From BBC radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:On a sultry afternoon in the summer of...
On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a woman accidentally interrupts an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina Land, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she’s not supposed to be at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she may have seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed ‘the Tie-Pin Killer’ she realises that another woman's life could be at stake.Jimmy Erskine is the raffish doyen of theatre critics who fears that his star is fading: age and drink are catching up with him, and in his late-night escapades with young men he walks a tightrope that may...
Download or read Curtain Call in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with Curtain Call.
- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 326 pages
- ISBN: 9780224099585 / 0
B1Ttfee0iuW.pdf
More About Curtain Call
I struggled to finish this because I lost interest in the plot and the outcome. It is decently written although perhaps overlong since for this reader, it lost momentum and tension. Set in London's theatre district in the 1930s against the backdrop of Oswald Moseley's Blackshirts and other historical moments of importance (the burning of Crystal Palace) this is much more a historical novel than a crime mystery. The murders are in the news, but do not affect the cast of characters directly. For the majority of it,... From BBC radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936, a woman accidentally interrupts an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina Land, a West End actress, faces a dilemma. She's not supposed to be at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man - the celebrated portrait artist, Stephen...
