Anthologies

• The Verdict of Us All: Stories from the Detective Club (2006, US, UK), Peter Lovsey, ed.
  See "Tuesday's Child"

• Mysterious Pleasures: A Celebration of the Crime Writers' Association 50th Anniversary (2004, US, UK), Martin Edwards, ed.
  See "Indian Rope Trick"

• Winter’s Crimes 13: 13 Murder Mysteries (1981, US), James Moffat, ed.
  See "Indian Rope Trick"

Children

• Under Plum Lake (1980, US, UK)

Fiction

Writing as Lionel Davidson

• Kolymsky Heights (1994, US, UK)
  'A breathless story of fear and courage' - "Daily Telegraph". A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible ...Fast-moving, exhilarating and starring a highly unusual hero, "Kolymsky Heights" is an unforgettable thriller with a spectacular denouement.

• The Chelsea Murders (1978, US, UK) -- Winner Gold Dagger Award
  This book is a winner of the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award. 'Lionel Davidson is one of the best and most versatile thriller writers we have' - "Daily Telegraph". A terrifying and 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. Seizing the girl, she is chloroformed, suffocated and - horrifyingly - beheaded. It's 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. Their film itself shows clues. Indeed the murderer even shows himself - in a mask. But which of them is behind it? That's the problem. Fast paced, terrifying and gripping, this is a page-turning thriller from a master of the genre.
  Aka Murder Games (US, UK)

• The Sun Chemist (1976, US, UK)
  'Beyond question the book of the year' - "Spectator". Chaim Weizmann was a great man, one of the founders of modern Israel. He was also a chemist of international repute. His work in the thirties led him to a cheap way of synthesising oil. But politics took over and it seemed Weizmann had died without passing on his revolutionary knowledge. In the oil-starved seventies, it falls to Igor Druyanov to reconstruct that magic formula. And the chase is on, for the news will overturn the Middle East ...Tense, intelligent and stylish, "The Sun Chemist" is gripping spy thriller from a true master of the genre.

• Smith's Gazelle (1971, US, UK)
  '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 hate; to attack for self-defence. But something incredible is happening to them, something that not even the fierce shelling of the Six-Day War can intrude upon. For they are on a fantastic mission, a mission both believe has been set for them by God ...Gripping, exciting and incredibly poignant, "Smith's Gazelle" is an intriguing thriller from a master of the genre.

• Making Good Again (1968, US, UK)
  Lawyer James Raison is sent to Munich to represent one of the claimants in a case of reparation involving the Swiss account of a rich Jewish banker called Bamberger who disappeared when the Germans overran Europe. The other claimant, Grunwald, an aged concentration camp victim has returned for the first time to the country where he suffered harrowing humiliations. Grunwald wants the money to build a home for the mentally ill in Israel. Together, Raison and Grunwald set out to investigate Bamberger's disappearance. Their search leads them across Europe to the Bavarian border. At last, within reach of Bamberger's money, they expose a final, shameful deceit.

• A Long Way to Shiloh (1966, U.K.) -- Winner Gold Dagger Award
  Aka The Menorah Men (U.K. )
  IN THE SANDSWEPT HEART OF AN ANCIENT LAND WAITS THE LAST GREAT TREASURE...Treasure priceless beyond mere money. The Menorah: the seven branched lamp, true symbol of Judaism, believed lost, destroyed, two thousand years ago. Now rumour has become fact. Ancient scrolls have been discovered attesting to its survival, hinting at its final hiding place. For the Israelis, no sacrifice is too great to ensure its safe homecoming. But some of Israel's neighbouring states have very different ideas. Caspar Laing, a brilliant young professor of Semitics, is brought to Israel for a secret and highly dangerous mission: to decode the scrolls and locate the prize. His only problem - staying alive long enough to do so...

• The Night of Wenceslas (1960, US, UK) -- Winner Gold Dagger Award
  Young Nicholas Whistler, dissolute and disillusioned, lives a life of dull monotony in London. Caught up in a petty money-lenders dispute, he finds himself sent to Prague to discharge the debt by carrying out a simple assignment. But this business trip will soon drag him deep into the dangerous world of Cold War espionage and the battle for atomic supremacy. Trapped between the secret police and the amorous clutches of the mysterious and statuesque Vlasta, Nicholas must face the fact that now he is a spy, whether he likes it or not. "The Night of Wenceslas", Lionel Davidson's debut thriller, was an instant and massive success upon publication in 1960. Its taut prose and masterful plot pushed him to the front ranks of the genre.It was described by the "New Yorker" as 'so enriched with style, wit, and a sense of serious comedy that it all but transcends its kind' and by "Newsweek" as 'downright superb.'
  Movie: Hot Enough For June with Dirk Bogarde

• The Rose of Tibet (1962, US, UK)
  Hugh Whittington has gone missing - reported dead while filming near Mount Everest. Determined to find him, his brother Charles embarks on a perilous and illegal journey from India into the forbidden land of Tibet, all the way to the monastery of Yamdring. There awaits a woman with a deadly and ghostly secret, an emerald treasure to guard and the invading Chinese Red Army. "The Rose of Tibet" (1962) is Lionel Davidson's second novel. His extraordinary and thrilling tale of a haunted land is among the very finest of its kind and prompted Graham Greene to remark: 'I hadn't realised how much I had missed the genuine adventure story until I read "The Rose of Tibet"'. Its combination of adventure and travelogue is further proof of Davidson's great variety as a writer, and caused Daphne du Maurier to say: 'It has all the excitement of "King Solomon's Mines"'.

Writing as David Line

• Screaming High (1985, US, UK )

• Mike and Me (1974, US, UK )
  One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this story of two boys involved in a fight against a gang of thugs has a similar style and characterization to the author's "Run for Your Life".

• Soldier and Me (1965, US)
  Aka Run for Your Life (US, UK)