A Coffin for Dimitrios

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. First American edition. Lacks jacket. Spine leans forward slightly, boards lightly rubbed and soiled, rear hinge just beginning to weaken, rear free endpaper removed, ink stamp and pencil name on front endpapers. 1939 Hard Cover. 281 pp. A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads Charles Latimer, himself the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.