Edition: First North American edition and first hardcover edition.
Edinburgh & New York: Cannongate, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Scottish author's first novel, winner of the Crime Writers Association Creasey Dagger - one which features a "highly unusual hero and a compelling background that shows extensive inside knowledge. The protagonist ('hero' is not quite the word) is Rilke, a promiscuously gay auction dealer working for a struggling Glasgow firm. On an appraisal call one day at the house of Roddy McKindless, a wealthy and recently deceased citizen, he comes across an extensive library of pornography, which includes pictures suggesting a 'snuff;-the slaughter of a woman for sexual purposes. Rilke finds himself, to his surprise, engaged in trying to find out who the girl in the picture was,…
Edinburgh & New York: Cannongate, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Scottish author's first novel, winner of the Crime Writers Association Creasey Dagger - one which features a "highly unusual hero and a compelling background that shows extensive inside knowledge. The protagonist ('hero' is not quite the word) is Rilke, a promiscuously gay auction dealer working for a struggling Glasgow firm. On an appraisal call one day at the house of Roddy McKindless, a wealthy and recently deceased citizen, he comes across an extensive library of pornography, which includes pictures suggesting a 'snuff;-the slaughter of a woman for sexual purposes. Rilke finds himself, to his surprise, engaged in trying to find out who the girl in the picture was, and whether she was really killed." (Publishe's Weekly) 294 pp. ISBN: 1841958034.
THE CUTTING ROOM.
