Eric Ambler Books In Order

Charles Latimer Books In Publication Order

  1. The Mask of Dimitrios / A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939)
  2. The Intercom Conspiracy / Quiet Conspiracy (1969)

Valeshoff Books In Publication Order

  1. Uncommon Danger / Background to Danger (1937)
  2. Cause for Alarm (1938)

Arthur Abdel Simpson Books In Publication Order

  1. The Light of Day (1962)
  2. Dirty Story (1967)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Dark Frontier (1936)
  2. Epitaph for a Spy (1938)
  3. Journey Into Fear (1940)
  4. Skytip (1951)
  5. Judgment on Deltchev (1951)
  6. Tender To Danger / Moonlight (1951)
  7. The Schirmer Inheritance (1953)
  8. The Maras Affair (1953)
  9. Charter To Danger (1954)
  10. The Night Comers / State of Siege (1956)
  11. Passport To Panic (1958)
  12. Passage of Arms (1959)
  13. A Kind Of Anger (1964)
  14. The Levanter (1972)
  15. Doctor Frigo (1974)
  16. The Siege of Villa Lipp / Send No More Roses (1977)
  17. The Care of Time (1981)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Ability to Kill and Other Pieces (1964)
  2. Waiting for Orders (1991)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. To Catch a Spy (1966)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Here Lies Eric Ambler: An Autobiography (1985)
  2. The Story So Far (1995)

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Eric Ambler Books Overview

The Mask of Dimitrios / 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.

Uncommon Danger / Background to Danger

Kenton’s career as a journalist depended on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics, and his quick judgment. Where his judgment sometimes failed him was in his personal life. When he finds himself on a train bound for Austria with insufficient funds after a bad night of gambling, he jumps at the chance to earn a fee to help a refugee smuggle securities across the border. He soon discovers that the documents he holds have a more than monetary value, and that European politics has more twists and turns than the most convoluted newspaper account.

Cause for Alarm

Nicky Marlow needs a job. He’s engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fianc points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he ll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor s death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it s not so simple to just do the job he s paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war.

The Light of Day

The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson s brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson riffling his wallet for traveler s checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the Turks and spy on his erstwhile colleagues or end up in one of Turkey s notorious prisons. The authorities suspect an attempted coup, but Harper and his gang of international jewel thieves have planned something both less sinister and much, much more audacious.

The Dark Frontier

The graded readers in this series aim to provide learners of English with a pleasurable reading experience. The series, which should appeal to a wide age range, exposes students to a variety of styles and kinds of English and the books contain puzzles and exercises based on the text. The grading system is based on lexical controls, structural controls and guidelines on sentence length and complexity. Books in Level 6 have a vocabulary of 2500 words.

Epitaph for a Spy

Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage is levelled at him. To prove himself innocent to the French police, he must discover which one of his fellow guests at his pension is the real spy. As he desperately tries to uncover the true culprit’s identity, Vadassy must risk his job, his safety and everything he holds dear.

Journey Into Fear

Returning to his hotel room after a late night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Na*zi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. Thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted, Journey Into Fear is a classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.

Judgment on Deltchev

Foster’s dramatic skill is well known in London s West End theaters. So perhaps it wasn t so surprising when he was hired by an American newspaper publisher to cover the trial of Yordan Delchev for treason. Accused of membership in the sinister Officer Corps Brotherhood and of masterminding a plot to assassinate his country s leader, Delchev may in fact be a pawn and his trial all show. But when Foster meets Madame Delchev, the accused s powerful wife, he suddenly become enmeshed in more life threatening intrigue than he could have imagined.

Tender To Danger / Moonlight

A blanket of fog grounds a flight in Brussels and Dr. Andrew Maclaren finds himself sharing a room with a fellow passenger who by morning disappears in suspicious circumstances, leaving behind an envelope hidden under the carpet. Whilst the contents are seemingly innocent, they lead the young Doctor into nightmarish adventures, culminating in the avoidance of cold blooded killers in a deserted windmill and in the company of a beautiful redhead.

The Schirmer Inheritance

It wasn t anyone’s idea of a glamorous first assignment at a white show law firm. George Cary, former WWII bomber pilot and newly minted lawyer, was given the ignoble task of going through the tons of files on the Schneider Johnson case, just to make sure nothing had been overlooked. But, as luck would have it, George did discover something among the false claims and dead end leads that made this into more than just another missing heir to a vast fortune case. And what he found would connect a deserter from Napoloeon s defeated army to a guerrilla fighter in post war Greece, and lead Cary himself into a dangerous situation where his own survival will depend more on what he learned in the army than anything he learned in law school.

The Maras Affair

Charles Burton, journalist, cannot get work past Iron Curtain censors and knows he should leave the country. However, he is in love with his secretary, Anna Maras, and she is in danger. Then the President is assassinated and one of Burton’s office workers is found dead. He decides to smuggle Anna out of the country, but her reluctance impedes him, as does being sought by secret police and counter revolutionaries alike.

Charter To Danger

Vincent Flavius, a millionaire industralist, charters a cabin cruiser owned by Ross Barnes. Rumours abound, and most appear to suggest Flavius is on the verge of engineering yet another of his sensational financial coups. Embarkation is set for Cannes, but that is where the trouble begins. Shock after shock follows a strange encounter Barnes has with a girl in a dingy cafe. Murder and kidnapping follow, along with a dangerous chase which brings the S ret Nationale into swift action.

The Night Comers / State of Siege

All in all Steve Fraser had enjoyed his three year stint in the former Dutch Southeast Asian colony of Sunda, and he d been well compensated. But now he was looking forward to a last weekend in the capital before heading home. But Sunda was newly independent, and not entirely stable. An opposition faction with fundamentalist Islamic leanings was set on overthrowing the provisonal government. And instead of enjoying a sybaritic weekend with the Eurasian beauty Rosalie, Fraser finds himself trapped with her by a fanatical group who ve taken over the country’s radio station and made their headquarters in his friend Jebb s apartment. As the government launches a counterattack, the couple s survival depends on their ability to dodge bullets and the shifting loyalties of the coup s liuetenants.

Passport To Panic

In this classic thriller, two American tourists find more adventure than they bargained for when they get involved with Chinese gun smugglers and Muslim revolutionaries, learning first hand about the intrigue of the post colonial world. Greg and Dorothy Nilsen had wanted to go on an adventurous trip, see some of the more out of the way places. But the cruise they were on was turning out to be a bore. So when the gracious Mr. Tan requests that Greg take a side trip to Singapore to resolve a bureaucratic detail involving a consignment of small arms, Greg is surprisingly receptive. All he has to do is sign some papers, he’s told, and he ll be paid a handsome fee. And everything does go smoothly, until it comes to getting a check co signed by the rebel leader

Passage of Arms

In this classic thriller, two American tourists find more adventure than they bargained for when they get involved with Chinese gun smugglers and Muslim revolutionaries, learning first hand about the intrigue of the post colonial world. Greg and Dorothy Nilsen had wanted to go on an adventurous trip, see some of the more out of the way places. But the cruise they were on was turning out to be a bore. So when the gracious Mr. Tan requests that Greg take a side trip to Singapore to resolve a bureaucratic detail involving a consignment of small arms, Greg is surprisingly receptive. All he has to do is sign some papers, he’s told, and he ll be paid a handsome fee. And everything does go smoothly, until it comes to getting a check co signed by the rebel leader

The Levanter

A brilliant novel from the winner of the 1972 Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award.

Syria, 1970. Three years after the Six Days War. Michael Howell was utterly apolitical and genetically programmed for survival, a Levantine of mixed origin who possessed profitable business enterprises throughout the Middle East and an Italian mistress as his office manager. Life was sweet for Michael Howell until, one night in Damascus, he discovered that his factories had become the clandestine operations base of the Palestine Action Force, a fanatical terrorist organization dead set on destroying Israel. Suddenly, Howell is caught in the middle with nowhere to run.

Doctor Frigo

A coup d’etat in a Caribbean state causes a political storm in the region and even the seemingly impassive and impersonal Doctor Castillo, nicknamed Doctor Frigo, cannot escape the consequences. As things heat up, Frigo finds that both his profession and life are horribly at risk.

The Siege of Villa Lipp / Send No More Roses

In the shadowy areas of international law criminals work hard at figuring loopholes. One such wheelerdealer is Paul Firman. He pursues his own ends in a quiet, unobtrusive way. Why would anyone want to bother about him? But he is unaware that an obsessive academician, Professor Krom, has stumbled on Firman’s activities and is determined to expose him. Two of Krom’s colleagues are on hand as witnesses as Krom prepares to confront Firman. But none have bargained with a third party threatening to put a permanent stop to the encounter. The booby trapped grounds of the Mediterranean Villa Lipp, a hovering motor cruiser, a sudden attack Krom is prepared for none of these. But Firman, always cool and self possessed, responds with force and decision, and in the end pulls Krom’s chestnuts out of the fire.

Waiting for Orders

Eric Ambler is a master of narrative and an elder statesman of suspense. He virtually created the modern spy story with his ground breaking series of pre WWII novels; A Coffin for Dimitrios and Journey into Fear are hailed as classics of the form. Waiting for Orders is the first volume to collect Mr. Ambler’s shorter works, most of which date from the period of his greatest literary triumphs.

Here Lies Eric Ambler: An Autobiography

Ambler peels back the layers of experience which have affected his life with the familiar skill he uses to unfold the plot of one of his novels. The first paperback publication of the Edgar winning autobiography.

The Story So Far

Eric Ambler is a master of narrative and an elder statesman of suspense. He virtually created the modern spy story with his ground breaking series of pre WWII novels; A Coffin for Dimitrios and Journey into Fear are hailed as classics of the form. Waiting for Orders is the first volume to collect Mr. Ambler’s shorter works, most of which date from the period of his greatest literary triumphs.

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