A Long Way to Shiloh

A Long Way to Shiloh

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name = A Long Way To Shiloh
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image_caption = Cover of Penguin paperback edition
author = Lionel Davidson
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Gollancz
release_date = 1966
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media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 239 pp
isbn = NA
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"A Long Way To Shiloh" (known in the USA 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.

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.


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