The Chelsea Murders

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.

The Chelsea Murders
First edition
AuthorLionel Davidson
Cover artistD.G. Rossetti
"The Blessed Damozel", 1878
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
1978
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages237 pp
ISBN0-14-005136-8
OCLC59018354

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 a Television film and was released on DVD in March 2010.[1]

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