{"product_id":"curtain-call-1","title":"Anthony Quinn: Curtain Call [2015] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJimmy 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 snap at any moment. He has depended for years on his loyal and longsuffering secretary Tom, who has a secret of his own to protect. Tom's chance encounter with Madeleine Farewell, a lost young woman haunted by premonitions of catastrophe, closes the circle: it was Madeleine who narrowly escaped the killer's stranglehold that afternoon, and now walks the streets in terror of his finding her again. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurtain Call\u003c\/i\u003e is a comedy of manners, and a tragedy of mistaken intentions. From the glittering murk of Soho's demi-monde to the grease paint and ghost-lights of theatreland, the story plunges on through smoky clubrooms, tawdry hotels and drag balls towards a denouement in which two women are stalked by the same killer. As bracing as a cold Martini and as bright as a new tie-pin, it is a poignant and gripping story about love and death and a society dancing towards the abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quinn, Anthony","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48114798002515,"sku":"XV80224099585","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/quinn-anthony-curtain-call-xv80224099585-55799867507027.jpg?v=1727548339","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/curtain-call-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}