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THE MENORAH MEN, Lionel Davidson's acclaimed best seller, is set in Israel, the author's adopted country. It is a thriller with an archeological background which tells of the modern quest for the original Menorah, the Holy Grail of the Jewish faith.
Caspar Laing, a young British archaeologist, is persuaded to travel to Israel to decipher a recently discovered scroll. Its contents set him hot on the trail of the long-lost Menorah. Accompanied by Shoshana, a dusky Yemenite soldier who is his chauffeuse, Laing scours the Holy Land in a dangerous search for a priceless buried treasure.

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.

Профессор биологии получает странные зашифрованные послания. Его знакомые из ЦРУ выясняют, что след тянется в постсоветскую Колыму...

UNDER PLUM LAKE is an enchanting children's fantasy which begins when Barry Gordon nearly drowns swimming round a Cornish cliff. Returning to the scene later he goes down a cliff path and finds a cave, and a boy waiting for him, beckoning him into a tunnel that goes under the water.

LIONEL DAVIDSON (1922-2009) was much admired by his fellow writers - Graham Greene, Rebecca West, Frederic Forsyth and Philip Pulman among them. He wrote eight adult novels, winning the Gold Dagger award for crime thrillers an unprecedented three times.He also wrote children's books under the name of David Line.

Молодой англичанин Николас Вистлер, поддавшись на мошеннический трюк, попадает в ловко расставленные шпионские сети. Чтобы сохранить жизнь, ему приходится отправиться в чужую страну под видом бизнесмена. В кармане лежит книга, в переплет которой зашита очень ценная вещь. Поначалу Николас не понимает смысла своего задания. Но постепенно убеждается, что даже собственная жизнь - не самое большое, что он может потерять... "Ночь святого Вацлава" (Night of Wenceslas) - первый роман Лайонела Дэвидсона, который сразу принес автору огромный успех. Книга была отмечена литературной премией "Золотая шпага" как лучший триллер года, а затем…