Originally published in 1978 and now reissued in paperback, a thriller about a local reporter who decides to investigate the case of a serial killer in Chelsea who beheads his victims. From the author of THE NIGHT OF WENCESLAS....
'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...
Hugh Whittington is missing, reported dead, while filming near Mount Everest. His brother Charles, determined to find him, embarks on a mission for information that takes him to the forbidden monastery of Yamdring - and its abbess, who happens to be ...
A young boy swimming off the cliffs of Cornwall discovers a cave, the entrance to a wonderful new world of giant, long-living people, fish that swim in the air, flower-flavored water, and varying time patterns...
''The best thriller I''ve ever read.'' Philip Pullman
Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless night, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It''s a place so secret it doesn''t officially exist; once t...
"THE NIGHT OF WENCESLAS, Lionel Davidson's first novel, concerns Nicolas Whistler--24 years old, debt-ridden and thwarted in his attempts to rise in what was once the family business. Nicolas is conspired to take a trip from London to Prague, ostensi...
Beautiful, lyrical, sensitive and meaningful . . . It deserves to be read and re-read.' Los Angeles Times Two deadly enemies - a young Arab rebel and a Jewish runaway - meet in a remote valley to begin a quest. Both have been taught since infancy to ...
Casper Laing, the young, fiery and brilliant Professor of Semitic Languages, is asked to decipher an ancient parchment found in Israel. Piecing together its mysterious fragments, his translation soon reveals directions to a shrouded location. Beli...