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Informationen zum Autor 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 Carré. 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
