The Chelsea Murders

Lionel Davidson
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571242986
Date Published
17.07.2008
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Summary

The Chelsea Murders (1978) was Lionel Davidson’s seventh novel, earning him the Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger Award and prompting the Daily Telegraph to declare, ‘Lionel Davidson is one of the best and most versatile thriller writers we have.’

A terrifying, grotesque figure bursts into a young art student’s room. Head covered with a clown’s wig, face concealed by a smiling mask, it wears the rubber gloves of a surgeon. The girl is seized, chloroformed, suffocated and – horrifyingly – beheaded. This is only the beginning of a series of murders terrorising London’s fashionable bohemia. The police target three avant-garde filmmakers. One of them is mocking the other two, and openly taunting the police as well. But which of them is behind these appalling crimes?

Fast paced, terrifying and gripping, this is a page-turning thriller from a master.

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Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carré. It was followed by The Rose…

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