description: Lionel Davidson. The Chelsea Murders. London: Jonathan Cape,1978. First edition. Octavo. 236 pages.A grotesque figure burst into the girl's room. Its head piled with fake curls, its face concealed behind a smiling mask, it wore the rubber gloves of a surgeon or perhaps a mortuary attendant. It seized the girl from behind and chloroformed, suffocated, and finally, decapitated her. Hers was only one in a series of horrendous murders by a killer who played games with the police, always mailing them cryptic bits of poetry--baffling clues to the identity of his next victim. "A milestone in the genre." --Ngaio Marsh
language: English
title: The Chelsea murders
titlecomplete: The Chelsea murders
genres: Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Crime, Fiction
ratings_count: 107
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: CWA Gold Dagger
publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1978.