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Cameron McCabe: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

Cameron McCabe: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

Now listen: you must cut out that Estella girl, every scene with her, I can’t have her, the picture’s too long. You must cut it down to seven thousand feet. I’ll send Robertson to help, and between the two of you you can do some juggling with your scissors and celluloid. You like it, don’t you? What you say?’ ‘It smells,’ I said. (more…)

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An up-to-date 1937 library, waiting for its body, from The Library Time Machine blog.

Every month at Past Offences I host a round-up of book and film reviews relating to a particular year in crime fiction.

For March I have chosen the year 1937, recently identified by JJ at the Invisible Event as the Golden Age of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. He even displays an impressive bell curve to…

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