The brilliantly witty and charmingly grisly new murder mystery from the author of A Mysterious Affair of Style.
About the Author
Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. Born in Edinburgh, he lived in Paris from 1968 through 1980. He is most famous for such novels asLove and Death on Long Island(1997) andThe Dreamers(2003), both of which were made into films, although he is also noted as the translator of Georges Perec's postmodern novelA Void, in which the letter e is not used. Adair won the 1995 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for this work.In 1998 and 1999 Adair was the chief film critic forThe Independent on Sunday, where in 1999 he also wrote a year-long column called "The Guillotine." In addition to the films made from his own works, Adair worked on the screenplays for a number of Raúl Ruiz films. Although he rarely spoke of his sexual orientation in public, not wishing to be labelled, he acknowledge in an interview that there were many gay themes in his work. He died from a brain hemorrhage in 2011.(source: Wikipedia)
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