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Language English Pages 237 pp OCLC 59018354 Publisher Jonathan Cape Country United Kingdom | 3.3/5 Goodreads Publication date 1978 ISBN 0-14-005136-8 Originally published 1978 Genre Thriller Cover artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Chelsea Murders (known in the USA as Murder Games) is a thriller by Lionel Davidson. The book won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award.
Contents
Plot summary
Someone is killing residents of the hip bohemian London neighborhood of Chelsea, home to literary giants of the past like Virginia Woolf. What thread connects them in someone's mad mind? The only clue is a fragment of film, which accidentally caught images of the murderer, dressed in an outlandish costume and mask.
Television adaptation
An adaptation of the novel was 1981 directed from Derek Bennett as an Television film and was released on DVD in March 2010.
References
The Chelsea Murders Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA