In A Coffin For Dimitrios, published in 1939, the city is Istanbul between the world wars, and the hero is a writer intrigued by a newly dead Greek criminal whose life story leads him deep into the ...

[image-1]Cuyahoga County corrections officer Eric Ambler is under investigation by the county, again, after he was arrested for disorderly conduct (intoxication) by Elyria police on November 20th.

PASSAGE OF ARMS (246 pp.)—Eric Ambler—Knopf ($3.95). The typical Eric Ambler reader—a man who, in his own fancy, wears a belted raincoat and knows an automatic from a revolver—places himself in the ...

Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter.