Title: A Coffin for Dimitrios
First published: 1939
Description: A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans. The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, *The Mask of Dimitrios* (published as  *A Coffin for Dimitrios* in the United States) remains Eric Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel.
Subjects: Fiction, Novelists, British, Orient Express (Express train), Railroad travel, Smuggling, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Europe, fiction, Fiction, general, German Detective and mystery stories, German Spy stories, English Spy stories, Translations from English, English Detective and mystery stories, Translations into German, Criminals, Charles Latimer (Fictitious character), English Authors, Fiction in English, Thriller, Large type books, Detective and mystery stories
Places: Balkan Peninsula
LC classification: PR'6001'M48'M314'1984, PR6001.M48 M3 1994