A Coffin for Dimitrios (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eric Ambler
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Spy thriller
- Time of Work: 1922-1938
- Setting: Istanbul, Athens, Sofia, Geneva, and Paris
- Principal Characters: Charles Latimer, Dimitrios Makropoulos, Talas, Taladis, Rougemont, Colonel Haki, Feilor Muishkin, Dhris Mohammed, N. Marukakis, Madame Irana Preveza, Mr. Peters (Frederik Petersen), Wladyslaw Grodek, Manus Visser, Bulic
- Genres: Long fiction, Suspense, Spy fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Paris, 1920’s, 1930’s, Novelists, Detectives, Assassination, Mysteries, Drug trafficking or dealing, Espionage or spies, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Paris, France, Istanbul, Turkey, Athens, Greece, Geneva, Switzerland, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Novel
A Coffin for Dimitrios is a novel of obsession, first of the protagonist, Charles Latimer, and finally of the reader. It is a novel of a search as Latimer travels around the eastern Mediterranean in a journey of discovery, trying to locate the past of the man whose body he had seen lying in a Turkish morgue. It is a novel of betrayal as first one and then another of Dimitrios’ friends become his victims, finally ending as both Latimer and the reader discover their own betrayal at the hands of the author, Eric Ambler.
The novel opens in 1938 with...
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