| The Long Shadow | |
| Author: | Anthony Gilbert |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scott Egerton |
| Genre: | Mystery thriller |
| Release Date: | 1932 |
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| Preceded By: | The Body on the Beam |
| Followed By: | The Musical Comedy Crime |
The Long Shadow is a 1932 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson.[1] 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.[2]
Mademoiselle Robert had twenty five years earlier been a celebrated star on the Parisian stage before drifting in anonymity. Now she has been founded dead in a slum-like tenement in London, with a knife through her heart.