description: A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.
language: English
title: A Coffin for Dimitrios
titlecomplete: A Coffin for Dimitrios
characters: Charles Latimer, Colonel Haki
genres: Crime, Classics, Espionage, Adventure, Novels, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 9835
series: Charles Latimer
publisher: University of California