The Mask of Dimitrios (Warners). When Cornelius Latimer Ley den (Peter Lorre), a writer of detective thrillers, first saw Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott), Dimitrios lay murdered on a slab in the ...
In an Eric Ambler spy novel, the hero is usually an ordinary fellow who lands in an unfamiliar foreign city and soon finds himself in rising water. In A Coffin For Dimitrios, published in 1939, the ...