by Eric Ambler · El País, Serie Negra nº 22, 2004, Madrid. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246836
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«La máscara de Dimitrios» is the suspense novel by Eric Ambler, published by El País in 2004 in paperback (284 pages, in Spanish).
A crime fiction writer investigates the death of Dimitrios, an apparently insignificant criminal, and sets out to reconstruct his story. That investigation reveals to him an interwar Europe full of corrupt figures and criminals, to the point that his curiosity puts his own life at risk.
Serie Negra Collection no. 22. First installment in the series featuring Charles Latimer. Translation by Ana Goldar. The novel was originally published in 1939 as The Mask of Dimitrios.
Will appeal to readers of classic-style crime and espionage fiction, with a suspenseful atmosphere in interwar Europe.
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with Charles Rodda. Ambler is notable for his novel The Light of Day (1962), which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1964 and which was adapted into film as Topkapi (1964).
