A Coffin for Dimitrios, Eric Ambler
A Coffin for Dimitrios, Eric Ambler
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A Coffin for Dimitrios

Author: Eric Ambler

Narrator: Alexander Spencer

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/13/2009

Synopsis

-An early classic of espionage fiction. Through the cafEs, trains and nighttime cities of Europe, Charles Latimer follows a twisting trail of drug-smugglers, thieves and assassins that will lead him to Dimitrios.

About Eric Ambler

Eric Ambler (1909–1998) graduated from London University and established himself as a writer with five classic novels of intrigue published between 1937 and 1940: Background to Danger, Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, A Coffin for Dimitrios, and Journey into Fear. During World War II he served in the British Army and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel. He wrote and produced a number of motion pictures and was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea. He then returned to writing novels, many of which became New York Times bestsellers. He is widely considered the father of spy-espionage thrillers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on June 22, 2020

When I first heard “ISIL” substituted for “ISIS,” I thought “What the heck does the 'L' stand for?” Somebody told me it stood for “the Levant,” and I immediately thought of The Mask of Dimitrios,” my favorite novel of international intrigue. What is “the Levant”? It is the once-fashionable term for t......more

Goodreads review by Will on September 10, 2019

This was a fun read. According to the jacket this was the first novel in which an everyman is caught in a web of international intrigue. It is very reminiscent of the 39 Steps. One could see Sydney Greenstreet, for example, in the role of Mister Peters. (Or, as it turns out, one did, and forgot that......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on March 23, 2022

Anything that is published by Penguin Modern Classics is instantly alluring in my mind and, given I’d heard positive things about Eric Ambler, I was keen to sample his work. I’d heard that The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) (aka A Coffin for Dimitrios) was one of his very best. Charles Latimer, an English......more

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