The Paper Cell

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?

Press

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Rights Profile

Rights Available
World, all languages

Original Language
English

Samples Available
Full text available in English

ISBN

9781910192832

Publication Date

June 2017

Link

The Paper Cell on the Saraband Books website