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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 of Tibet
(1962),
A Long Way to Shiloh (1966),
The Chelsea Murders (1978) and
Kolymsky Heights
(1994) which Faber 'brought in from the cold' and republished to
bestselling acclaim in 2015. He was thrice the recipient of the
Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the
CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009.
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