THE NIGHT OF WENCESLAS

The Night of Wenceslas, Lionel Davidson's first novel, concerns Nicolas Whistler - 24 years old, debt-ridden and thwarted in his attempts to rise in what was once the family business. Nicolas is conspired to take a trip from London to Prague, ostensibly to smuggle out some industrial secrets. But the secrets are, in fact, atomic, and Nicolas lets himself in for more than he bargained. Davidson's award-winning novel is a crisp thriller which offers, as the careful plans unravel, glimpses of the Czech-emigre network in England, and of the inner workings of the British Embassy in Prague.

THE ROSE OF TIBET

When his brother is mysteriously lost in Tibet, Charles Houston leaves London to find him. His search takes him to India and Sikkim, through a succession of exotic locales, and finally to Tibet, where Houston falls in love with Mei-Hua, the abbess of the monastery of Yamdring.

THE MENORAH MEN (UK title: A Long Way to Shiloh)

When a fragment from one of the Dead Sea Scrolls is discovered by Israeli archaeologists, Casper Laing is brought to decipher the hidden message. Now, it's Laing's mission to hunt and retrieve the True Menorah, the great seven-branched gold candlestick stolen from Solomon's temple in 70 A.D., and return it to its rightful home in Israel.

MAKING GOOD AGAIN

TIn Germany to settle a claim for reparation after the wartime disappearance of a wealthy Jewish banker, lawyer James Raison is plunged into the old conflict between Jew and Nazi. His trip becomes more dangerous as the legal aspects become more complicated.

SMITH'S GAZZELLE

Two deadly enemies, a young Arab rebel and a Jewish runaway, meet in a remote valley to begin a mission - one that they both believe has been set for them by God.

THE SUN CHEMIST

THE CHELSEA MURDERS (US Title: Murder Games)

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.

KOLYMSKY HEIGHTS

In the brutal terrain of Siberia, a Russian research station conceals a dark scientific secret that could be used for the world's good - or for the ultimate evil. Now, cryptic messages urgently call for the expertise of one man - Johnny Porter, Canadian-Indian scholar with a natural gift for languages and disguises, outdoorsman, rebel and loner.