Eric Ambler

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1936
  • Latest Book:
    December 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Arthur Simpson

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

Charles Latimer

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

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The Dark Frontier

    The Dark Frontier launched Eric Ambler’s five-decade career as one of the most influential thriller writers of our time. England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an arm...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures ...

  • Epitaph for a Spy

    When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris. But in St. Gatien, on the eve of World War II, everyone is suspect"the...

  • The Mask of Dimitrios // A Coffin for Dimitrios

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    Charles Latimer - 1

    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, this is Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel, "one of the masterpieces of the genre" (The New Y...

  • The Intrusions of Doctor Czissar

  • Journey Into Fear

    A thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boîte, Graham is surprised by an intruder with...

  • Judgment on Deltchev

    Foster is the toast of London's West End theatres and it's no surprise when the playwright is hired by an American newspaper to cover the high-profile trial of Yordan Deltchev for treason. But all is not as it seems and he is soon drawn into a bewild...

  • 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...



  • 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 new...

  • 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 Dorot...

  • The Light of Day

    Arthur Simpson - 1

    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 pe...

  • A Kind of Anger

    Eric Ambler is at the top of his form with A Kind of Anger, which expertly combines a satire of paparazzi-driven media culture with a classic espionage tale filled with breathless suspense.Six weeks ago, Lucia Bernardi fled the Swiss villa where her ...

  • Dirty Story

    Arthur Simpson - 2

    Eric Ambler reprises his greatest character, Arthur Abdel Simpson from Light of Day (aka Topkapi), in an entirely new adventure set in the heart of Africa. Simpson, anti-hero and general cad is up against it again - ''it'' being the injustice of l...

  • The Intercom Conspiracy

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    Charles Latimer - 2

    All right, I know. You think that I behaved like a clown, panicking at the sight of that C.I.A. bastard. But what you have to remember is that in the space of a few hours I had been snatched, interrogated under duress, roughed up, threatened, burgled...

  • The Levanter

    Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award Syria, 1970. Michael Howell has kept his family’s Middle Eastern business enterprises going through a decade of takeovers, war, and revolution, thanks in part to his office manager, ...

  • The Blood Bargain

    in Mysterious Pleasures

    'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...

  • Intriguers

  • Uncommon Danger

    Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his personal life. When he travels to Nuremberg to investigate...



  • Doctor Frigo

    Dr. Frigo is the nickname of Dr. Ernesto Castillo. His father either died or was assassinated and was a leading figure in the Democratic Socialist Party in St. Paul-les Alizes. With his death, leadership in the party would normally fall to Ernesto. ...

  • The Siege of the Villa Lipp

    The “Able Criminal”, as defined by noted criminologist Frits Krom, strikes with no discernible pattern or method, and flies below the radar of crime syndicates and law enforcement agencies alike. He is virtually uncatchable -- but Krom is willing...

  • The Care of Time

    The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a busy week......

  • To Catch a Spy

  • Ability to Kill

    With The Ability to Kill, first published in 1963, renowned thriller writer Eric Ambler turns his attention to true crime -- with an emphasis on murder. In five essays, he presents a sampling of famously intriguing (and often disturbing) cases of the...

  • Here Lies

    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....

  • Waiting for Orders

    Waiting for Orders collects nine short stories that span the sixty-year career of master spy novelist Eric Ambler. The stories include thrilling portrayals of wartime Europe in “The Army of the Shadows” (1939); six cases featuring a refugee Czech...

  • 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 wo...

  • Tender to Danger

    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 ...

  • Dr. Frigo

    A coup d'état 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 profes...



  • Charter to Danger

    Vincent Flavius, a millionaire industrialist, charters a cabin cruiser owned by Ross Barnes. Flavius is on the verge of engineering yet another sensational financial coup. Embarkation is set for Cannes, but that is where the trouble begins. Shock aft...

  • Skytip

    Peter Ackland is ordered to rest by his Doctor. He travels to Cornwall and is greeted by Henry Braddock at the door of a cottage below the 'skytip'. Braddock has a revolver in his pocket. Ackland also comes across Nathan Murrison and his valet, who d...

  • Passport To Panic

    Lewis Page needs money urgently and a way out. He determines to get it from his wealthy brother who lives in a remote region of San Mateo in South America. Upon his arrival, however, he finds his brother desperately ill and in the hands of a notoriou...

  • This Gun for Hire

    First published five years after he introduced Arthur Abdel Simpson in the comic thriller "The Light of Day," Eric Ambler turns the spotlight back to his compelling antihero -- a man you can’t help but root for. Arthur Abdel Simpson counts himse...

Award-Winning Books by Eric Ambler

The Light of Day
1964 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eric Ambler has published 33 books.

Eric Ambler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, This Gun for Hire, was published in December 2012.

The first book by Eric Ambler, The Dark Frontier, was published in January 1936.

Yes. Eric Ambler has 2 series.
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