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The Mask of Dimitrios (Pan Classic Crime) (Hardcover)

by Eric Ambler (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan; New edition edition (23 April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033374604X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333746042
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 989,700 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Not Le Carre, not Deighton, not Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytelling that established The Mask of Dimitrios as the best of its kind.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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It all began so simply, Dimitrios Makropoulos was dead. Except that nothing Latimer could do helped to stop the nagging feeling that something was not right. That there was something more to the violent death of Dimitrios.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ambler's finest hour, 31 Aug 2009
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This review is from: The Mask of Dimitrios (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
One of Eric Ambler's classic thrillers from the 1930's and 40's, this tells the tale of a British engineer travelling through Turkey on the trail of an extremely dangerous killer. Without giving the plot away, it's a tautly plotted cat and mouse chase with an exciting climax.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT INTERWAR SPY THRILLER, 5 Jul 2003
This review is from: The Mask of Dimitrios (Paperback)
ERIC AMBLER'S THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS IS A WONDERFULLY TAUT THRILLER SET IN A MYSTERIOUS PERIOD BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS.WITHOUT GIVING TOO MUCH AWAY ABOUT THE PLOT OR CHARARACTERS, AMBLER'S NOVEL TELLS THE TALE OF AN ACADEMIC VISITING THE CITY OF ISTANBUL TO LOOK INTO THE DEATH OF A MASTER SPY/ASSASSIN.THE FACT THAT AMBLER WROTE THE BOOK IN 1939, GIVES THE MODERN READER A SENSE OF FOREBODING DOOM AND GENERAL ANARCHY IN THE OVERALL VIEW OF 1930'S EUROPE.ADD TO THE MIX, THE GRIPPING TENSION OF THE SCENES INVOLVING DIMITRIOS HIMSELF, AND YOU HAVE AN UNBEARABLY GRIPPING, CHARACTER DRIVEN SUSPENSE NOVEL.COMPARED WITH SOME OF TODAYS'S PLOT DRIVEN THRILLER BOOKS, WITH THEIR CARDBOARD CUT-OUT PLAYERS, THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS IS A TREAT THAT YOU SHOULD NOT MISS.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Old Fashioned Page Turner, 28 May 2009
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This review is from: The Mask of Dimitrios (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
I read this book on holiday and found it to be a very enjoyable adventure yarn and a genuine page turner. It seems old fashioned today, without any explicit sex, violence or even bad language. Written in 1939 in a simple, straightforward style, its charms lie in a strong, honourable central character who wishes simply to unravel a mystery to satisfy his own curiosity - did the well known criminal and racketeer Dimitrios really die or is he still at large? His investigations take him across Europe from Istanbul to Switzerland, and the reader stays hooked throughout.

This is not a particularly deep or philosophical book but is ideal holiday reading and an expertly written example of its genre. Lots of fun.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good clean spy fun - but with a spot of murder and a good dash of drugs ...
When I saw that Penguin were reissuing five of Ambler's novel in their Modern Classics series, the choice of which to read first was easy - I picked The Mask of Dimitrios. Read more
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