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product_id: 1372570
title: "A Coffin for Dimitrios"
brand: "eric ambler"
price: "6989 som"
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# A Coffin for Dimitrios

**Brand:** eric ambler
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- **What is this?** A Coffin for Dimitrios by eric ambler
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A Coffin for Dimitrios

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Intriguing, engaging thriller as we follow everyman novelist Latimer
  

*by F***9 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2021*

“The situation in which a person, imagining fondly that he is in charge of his own destiny, is, in fact, the sport of circumstances beyond his own control, is always fascinating.”Thus, it is with a certain Charles Latimer, a novelist who specializes in crime fiction. In Eric Ambler’s novel, Latimer gets a real taste of what makes up the mind of a criminal.I think one of the most engaging angles of this novel is simply the notion of the everyman in Latimer seemingly “in over his head” as he progresses throughout the novel. Latimer is introduced to a glimpse of the life of a notoriously infamous criminal named Dimitrios by a stroke of circumstance when a body washes ashore in Istanbul. His fascination piqued, Latimer goes to great lengths to seeks out and formulate a timeline for the criminal’s career, including some of his most notorious deeds. To do this, Latimer not only does some research on the side through court documents and newspaper archives, but even digs deeper by encountering some of those who knew the criminal in some capacity. But, at what point is Latimer crossing the line and threshold into Dimitrios’ life and past at his own peril? An obsession of sorts consumes and takes hold of Latimer, and he feverishly pursues his quest for knowledge of this man.I thought this was an amazingly effective thriller and spy type novel. It has all the make up and elements that engage the reader throughout: assassination attempts, espionage and spy tricks, duplicity and deception, treachery, and murder. Ambler puts us right into Latimer’s shoes and we experience the events upfront as an innocent bystander. The pacing of the novel is quite epic as it builds with a momentum of tension layer by layer as we move along through each chapter. In this way, I think Ambler plots this novel so succinctly and effectively to reach the utmost intrigue as we become embroiled in the mystery along with its main character. And the final chapters are as intense as I have read and had me on the edge of my seat as I plowed through to see how things concluded.In short, there is a definite expert level of storytelling here from Ambler, with twists, shocking revelations, and mystery at every corner. A very fascinating read, and I look forward to more works from this author.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The man behind the mask...
  

*by H***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2014*

Author Eric Ambler thrilled an earlier generation of readers with his espionage and crime novels and screenplays.  His work has held up remarkably well as a reading experience.  "A Coffin for Dimitrios" is generally considered one of his best, first published in 1939.  It is the story of an Englishman named Latimer, a writer of crime fiction who becomes involved in the pursuit of a real Greek criminal named Dimitrios.  The setting of the novel, in a tumultuous Europe between the World Wars, is now a bit dated, but Ambler's brisk prose and flair for interesting characters and intrigue should carry the modern reader through the twisting and turning plot, as Latimer follows a thin trail of clues to a surprising discovery and to an understanding of his target.  The settings of the novel, in Turkey, Eastern Europe, and France, sound authentic and add to the flavor of an exotic story.  Ambler is generally considered to have laid the groundwork for later writers such as LeCarre, Len Deighton, and Robert Ludlum.  Recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A coffin so well-made is hard to find
  

*by R***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 9, 2009*

For the sake of accuracy, the version of the book under review is the 1976 hardback reprint (by American Reprint Co.) of an Alfred A. Knopf edition, presumably the one copyright 1943, of A Coffin for Dimitrios.  There is no dust cover; the hardback cover contains only the title and the author's name on a plain, light-grey binding.  It is a well-made, though modest volume: serviceable but no collector's item.There are many excellent reviews on Amazon of this outstanding early spy novel in a paperback version. Please read them to enjoy much literate and amusing opinion about it.  Suffice it to say that I, like the others, thoroughly enjoyed it.I reveled in the very correct demeanor, but delightfully ironic language, of the narrator, who tells the story of Latimer (note play on "Ambler"), an obscure professor at a minor English university turned writer of detective stories, "... one of the shamefaced few who could make money at the sport."  One occasionally emerges from following along into the accelerating gyre into which Latimer allows himself to be led, stopping while coming up for air to reflect on what great sport the author is having with the reader, leading one into ever more improbable, but thoroughly absorbing adventures.  What a tour de force, that he can carry off this wild and exuberant trail of strange encounters, yet maintain his very British sang froid.  One certainly wonders why seek, at such peril, for Dimitrios, who takes ever more formidable shape, despite being dead, apparently, almost from the outset.  The author nails together the coffin, plank by plank, but who will wind up in it?

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