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A Coffin for Dimitrios

by Eric Ambler

First Published

1939

Subjects

Fiction
Novelists
British
Orient Express (Express train)
Railroad travel
Smuggling
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Fiction, psychological
Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Europe, fiction
Fiction, general
German Detective and mystery stories
German Spy stories
English Spy stories
Translations from English
English Detective and mystery stories
Translations into German
Criminals
Charles Latimer (Fictitious character)
English Authors
Fiction in English
Thriller
Large type books
Detective and mystery stories

Description

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans. The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, *The Mask of Dimitrios* (published as *A Coffin for Dimitrios* in the United States) remains Eric Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel.

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