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Lionel Davidson


Born
in Hull, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
March 31, 1922

Died
October 21, 2009

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Aka David Line

Lionel Davidson was a three-times winner of the Gold Dagger Award (for The Night of Wenceslas, A Long Way to Shilo and The Chelsea Murders). His thrillers and adventure novels have won him enormous international acclaim. He also wrote children's books under the name of David Line.

See also Obituary at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obitu...
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Average rating: 3.7 · 7,947 ratings · 930 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors
Kolymsky Heights
3.75 avg rating — 5,086 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
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The Rose of Tibet
3.60 avg rating — 1,207 ratings — published 1962 — 47 editions
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The Night of Wenceslas
3.52 avg rating — 603 ratings — published 1960 — 36 editions
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Under Plum Lake
4.05 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1980 — 15 editions
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The Menorah Men
3.34 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 1966 — 38 editions
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The Chelsea Murders
3.17 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1978 — 20 editions
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Smith's Gazelle
3.98 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1971 — 13 editions
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The Sun Chemist
3.31 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1976 — 14 editions
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Making Good Again
3.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions
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Kolymsky Heights
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“Almost at once, sleep, like some rhythmical, snoring vacuum cleaner, consumed the awful day.”
― Lionel Davidson
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“The danger with detail, for a storyteller, is to put in too much of it: to be so in love with one’s research that one wants the reader to fall in love with it as well. But the reader rarely does.”
― Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights
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