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Lionel Davidson

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Davidson never quite managed to fulfil his early promise to become a major figure in British spy fiction, although his best novels are of high quality. In 2001, he was awarded the CWA's
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Lionel Davidson died on 21 October 2009 in north London after a long illness. Davidson's first wife, the former Fay Jacobs, died in 1988.
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lifetime achievement award, for making "a significant contribution to crime fiction published in the English language".
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reporter. It was during one of these trips that he came up with the idea for his first thriller,
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Dermot Kavanagh's article on Davidson's 'The Chelsea Murders' posted on the London Fictions site
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When the war ended, he returned to the Keystone Agency and travelled all over Europe as a
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magazine as an office boy. Later, he joined the Keystone Press Agency. During the
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Award (the top prize for crime and spy fiction in Britain) as well as the
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Davidson then went into an extended hiatus after the publication of
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Novels for young adults published under the pseudonym "David Line"
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tailor. He left school early and worked in the London offices of
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was an instant success, inviting favourable comparisons with
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Davidson wrote a number of children's novels under the
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was also adapted for television as part of Thames TV's
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Index

Lionel Davidson (civil servant)
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Hull
London
spy thrillers
FRSL
novelist
spy thrillers
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
Gold Dagger Award
Hull
Yorkshire
Jewish
The Spectator
Second World War
Royal Navy
freelance
The Night of Wenceslas
Czechoslovakia
Cold War
Prague
Eric Ambler
Penguin
Crime Writers' Association
Gold Dagger
Authors' Club First Novel Award
Hot Enough for June
Dirk Bogarde
The Rose of Tibet

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