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Title: A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0-375-72671-3 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Real Deal - A spy novel that is smart and fun
Comment: Ambler's book traces the story of Charles Latimer's, a British professor who writes detective novels in his spare time, descent into the world of international espionage and greed. Ambler is wonderful at recreating the recollections of an earnest and somewhat simple man who is hopelessly out his league as his follows the life history of a corpse he's been shown for laughs in a Turkish morgue.
This is the real deal in terms of mystery/spy novels. It's a delightfully intelligent and engaging page turner by the author who invented the modern spy genre. The roiling, ethnically and politically complex Europe of the 1930 is nearly another character of the novel, but unlike the work of more contemporary authors, the reader never feels bludgeoned over the head with historical trivia.
This is a fun, interesting, page-turning thriller. Great beach reading, but intelligent enough not to insult the serious reader of literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: 1930's Vintage Noir!
Comment: This is a quite wondeful little book. It is hard to believe that a book that was written so many years ago could still be thrilling and exciting today. I now understand why Ambler is thought to be the father of the spy novel. It would be difficult to find a writer today that could build up this kind of suspense and intrigue. I couldn't help thinking as I was reading it that it would make a great black and white movie, and then I found out that it actually was made into a movie in the 40's. Peter Lorre and Greenstreet starred in it. It would be nice to see this old movie now that I've read the book. The book is set mostly in the Balkans, but Ambler takes the reader to Athens and Paris too. The story is about a mystery writer's curiosity to trace the life of a criminal that he first sees dead on a slab in Turkey. Charles Latimer gets pulled into all kinds situations while he pursues the truth. The story is action-filled right to the end. This has to be one of the best books from the 30's (at least in this genre).
Rating: 5
Summary: A true classic...
Comment: Classic suspense/espionage novel by one of the masters of the genre.
A mystery writer becomes enthralled with the career of the mysterious Dimitrios, whose body is discovered in a morgue in Instanbul. A Turkish colonel who just happens to like detective novels draws the writer into the tangled web of Dimitrios' world, and things get more convoluted and dangerous, to the point that the book becomes one of those that you can't put down, and will keep you up late wanting to finish it.
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Title: Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0375726721 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0375713247 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0375726748 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Judgment on Deltchev by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0375726756 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Dark Star : A Novel by Alan Furst ISBN: 0375759999 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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