Abstract
While Cameron McCabe’s detective novel The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor interrogates its own generic mystery elements, Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood asks if its own constant questions are “independent [. . .] zombies of the interrogative mood.” This essay examines how reading as mutual interrogation brings text, detective and reader in McCabe’s novel (back) to life.
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