A Long Way to Shiloh

A Long Way to Shiloh (known in the US as The Menorah Men so as not to be thought a Civil War novel) is a thriller by Lionel Davidson. The book won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award.

A Long Way to Shiloh
First US edition
AuthorLionel Davidson
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGollancz (UK)
Harper & Row (US)
Publication date
1966
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages239

Plot summary

Caspar Laing is a Professor of Semitic Languages who is asked to translate an ancient parchment found in Israel. Fragmentary as the message is, it appears to give directions to the hiding place of a holy candelabrum rescued from the Jerusalem Temple before its destruction by the Romans in 70 AD. But the Jordanians have a copy of the parchment as well, and the search for the priceless menorah becomes a deadly cat and mouse hunt in the burning Negev desert. The story draws from the Copper Scroll found at Qumran in 1952, which lists buried treasure.


gollark: For example, children being sold into slavery by their parents is obviously really bad.
gollark: I would make a much better supreme eternal world dictator for life.
gollark: Life isn't actually very well-defined. and even if someone comes up with a satisfying detailed definition there's no particular reason to presuppose that that's the point at which things get assigned moral worth.
gollark: This is very noncentral-fallacy of you.
gollark: I assume you mean something like "but ending lives is murder".
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