Enjoying enormous success at the outset of his career - bagging three Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Daggers, a total only ever matched by Ruth Rendell - Lionel Davidson's writing ultimately fell into almost total obscurity by the late seventies. Sudden interest however in Kolymsky Heights last year has sparked a long-overdue Davidson revival. To celebrate the re-release of Davidson's debut, The Night of Wenceslas, author William Ryan has written an introduction to the ‘stylish, ingenious [book]’ (The New York Times)

Alex Russell from Faber & Faber explains how Lionel Davidson's novels, which were immensely popular on the 1960's, have become so popular once again.

This brilliant literary thriller by Lionel Davidson, the author Kolymsky Heights, set during 1950s, will please literature-lovers and thriller-readers alike