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 ...
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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 ...
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. 1st edition, 1st printing. A tidy hardback in tight binding; dust jacket slightly worn at edges; with light browning to spine & front panel; dj not price-clipped.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Reissue (first published 1956). Red lettering on dust jacket spine slightly faded, otherwise a very nice bright, clean copy; dust jacket not price-clipped.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Gray boards stamped with black emblem on front, gold and black on spine. Spine slant. Light spotting to black top stain. Initials in ink in top right corner of front flyleaf. Stain on pages 17 & 19, and on lower fore-edge. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges of dust jacket. Some short stress creases at front jacket fold, a little wear to tips. Jacket in mylar. Helen Worrell Clarkson McCloy was a prolific writer of mystery novels and a major influence on the genre. In 1950, she became the first female president of Mystery Writers of America (MWA). She was an early prominent employer of psychiatry in detective fiction and has been favorably compared with the English Crime Queens Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh.