Charles Latimer, Book 1
by Eric Ambler
appears in Spy, Thriller & Suspense, and Mystery & Crime.
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 in...
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