Und Action!: Miss Mount und der Mord am Filmset

by Gilbert Adair

Die Schauspielerin Cora Rutherford, eine alte Freundin von Evadne Mount, wird vergiftet. Nicht nur vor laufender Kamera, sondern auch vor den Augen aller am Filmset. Sechs Menschen hatten die Gelegenheit, sie zu töten, aber keiner der Tatverdächtigen hat ein Motiv. In den Verhören fällt eines Alle am Set hassen den Regisseur Alastair Farjeon – fettleibig, unerträglich, insbesondere Frauen gegenüber, und so eitel, dass er in jedem seiner Filme einen Kurzauftritt haben muss. Und Miss Mount, immer in Begleitung ihres treuen Partners Eustace Trubshawe, einst Chefinspektor von Scotland Yard, stößt auf ein anderes, früheres Verbrechen. Auch das ungelöst, für diese Tat allerdings hatten alle am Filmset ein Motiv – aber eigentlich keine Gelegenheit. Ein gemeiner, genialer Mord, für dessen Aufklärung es eine geniale Ermittlerin braucht!

289 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 28, 2022

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 as Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003), both of which were made into films, although he is also noted as the translator of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A 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 for The 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)