Books with title A Coffin for Dimitrios

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.

Dimitrios began his career in Turkey by cutting the throat of a moneylender. In Morocco he made a fortune as a white slaver. In Bulgaria he plotted assassinations. In Belgrade he traded state secrets. In Paris he dealt in drugs. Now, in Istanbul, Dimitrios has finally been stopped--by his own murder. Charles Latimer is obsessed with Dimitrios. A mystery writer in search of a story, Latimer digs into Dimitrios' past...and nearly ends up digging his own grave.