''The Long Shadow'' is a 1932
mystery
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detective novel
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by
Anthony Gilbert, the
pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It is the seventh of ten novels in a series featuring her
amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton, a precursor to her better known creation Arthur Crook.
[Murphy p.160]
Synopsis
Mademoiselle Robert had twenty five years earlier been a celebrated star on the
Paris
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ian stage before drifting in anonymity. Now she has been founded dead in a slum-like
tenement
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in
London
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, with a knife through her heart.
References
Bibliography
* Magill, Frank Northen . ''Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 2''. Salem Press, 1988.
* Murphy, Bruce F. ''The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery''. Springer, 1999.
* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.
1932 British novels
British mystery novels
British thriller novels
Novels by Anthony Gilbert
Novels set in London
British detective novels
Collins Crime Club books
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