by Eric Ambler · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845915420
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«La maschera di Dimitrios» is the suspense novel by British writer Eric Ambler, published by Adelphi in paperback (235 pages, in Italian).
In Istanbul in the 1930s, English novelist Charles Latimer meets Colonel Haki, who tells him about Dimitrios Makropoulos, a famous European criminal. Following his trail across the Aegean, Sofia and Bucharest, Latimer becomes involved in an investigation that ultimately transforms him.
First instalment of the series featuring Charles Latimer. Italian edition of 2000, in the Gli Adelphi collection, translated by Franco Salvatorelli. Work originally published in 1939.
Classic espionage and suspense novel, with a Balkan atmosphere, for those who enjoy between-the-wars thrillers.
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with Charles Rodda. Ambler is notable for his novel The Light of Day (1962), which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1964 and which was adapted into film as Topkapi (1964).
