The Rose of Tibet (Perennial Library Mystery Series) - Softcover

Davidson, Lionel

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9780060805937: The Rose of Tibet (Perennial Library Mystery Series)

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ISBN 10: 0060805935 ISBN 13: 9780060805937

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1982

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Hugh Whittington is missing, reported dead, while filming near Mount Everest. His brother Charles, determined to find him, embarks on a mission for information that takes him to the forbidden monastery of Yamdring - and its abbess, who happens to be a she-devil in her 18th-century incarnation.

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About the Author:

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 Carre. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). 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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