![]() ![]() The Butler Did It: In Colonel Haki's mystery novel (implied to be bad) that he shares with Latimer, he reveals that he played this trope completely straight.Boisterous Bruiser: Colonel Haki, the Turkish Secret Police officer, as part of Obfuscating Stupidity.Black-and-Gray Morality: Besides Latimer, who is a decent guy, and some of his informants who are likewise, some of the characters who want revenge on Dimitrios are almost as bad as he is.As Latimer researches Dimitrios' past, he begins to be drawn into a world of dark conspiracies.Īdapted into the 1944 film The Mask of Dimitrios starring Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. ![]() Through the course of his extremely shady life, Dimitrios went from a petty crook, to a pimp, to a particularly unethical spy, to finally a member of an international syndicate engaged in drug-trafficking and other crime. It tells of British mystery writer Charles Latimer going on vacation to Turkey and learning about Dimitrios, a notorious criminal, whose corpse has just been found. A classic spy novel by Eric Ambler of the "stale beer" type. Originally published in Britain in 1939 as "The Mask of Dimitrios". ![]()
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