Crime Fiction from Turkey

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Eric Ambler (2001) The Mask for Dimitrios / A Coffin for Dimitrios. (First published 1939)

Ambler's story of a mystery writer in Istanbul, who gets himself involved with the criminal and spy Dimitrios, is a true classic. Dimitrios' corpse has just been fished out of the Bosporus by the police. As the writer sets out to discover Dimitrios' past, someone is stalking him on his trail from Smyrna to Athens to Sofia.

Eric Ambler (2002) Journey Into Fear.

Mr. Graham, a naval ordnance engineer for an English armament manufacturer is assisting Turkey during WWII to modernize their navy, when he finds himself the object of an assassination plot headed up by a German agent named Moeller. Graham, an ordinary fellow, outwitts the professional killers.

Barbara Nadel (2005) Deadly Web.

This unusual story from Turkey features a group of young Goths. Their seemingly romantic cult of Satanism turns dangerous, as some members are killed in what seems to be ritualistic rapes and murders. Police inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman investigate and have to deal with ancient Hebrew practices and traditions of Kabbalah.

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