# The Long Body

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- Book: [The Long Body](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-mccloy/the-long-body) ([The Long Body.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-mccloy/the-long-body.md))
- Authors: [Helen McCloy](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-mccloy)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7191-251-1
- Published: 2013-10-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A prominent American diplomat falls over a cliff to his death. The death is accepted as an accident, but could it have been suicide - or even murder? His widow finds a locked drawer in his desk and in it a file with a woman's name on it - but the file is empty. Circumstances lead her to an elderly man bearing the same name, but he has a stroke and can neither speak nor write. And then she sees the car headlights coming at her, fast, at night, through an impenetrable mist ...