Charles Latimer A Coffin for Dimitrios, Book 1, (Paperback)

from CarltonC

This is an interesting thriller written just before the second world war and to me, most of its interest came from the insight into how the European continent was portrayed. The story is about Charles Latimer is a British University professor who has retired once he discovered that he can make a ...

from gaskella

When I saw that Penguin were reissuing five of Ambler's novel in their Modern Classics series, the choice of which to read first was easy - I picked The Mask of Dimitrios. Apart from having been published during the same year as Chandler's The Big Sleep, this novel is famous for being the one tha...

from AnnieMod

Part old style spy novel, park caricature of one, part a portrait of Europe in the late thirties. I cringed every time when I saw a Bulgarian name, city or place mentioned (they were awfully mangled but that might be the way they had been known to the English world back then...). Somewhere mid bo...

from TheWasp

Charles Lattimer, a mystery writer, is intrigued with the story behind the man in the morgue who, in the past, had been linked to multiple crimes in several countries. He sets off to find out about him and finds himself involved in a real life spy novel and all is not what it seems. I enjoyed the...

from praymont

**spoiler alert** In the 1930's Eric Ambler pioneered the modern espionage thriller. His mastery of this genre was acknowledged by Graham Greene and John le Carre. Indeed, Philip French (film critic for The Observer) has noted the influence of 'A Coffin for Dimitrios' on Greene's script for the g...