“Hunting a Murderer with Compassionate Glee”

Sarah Weinman reviews an old and still compelling mystery novel, Eric Ambler’s A Coffin for Dimitrios: “Even though Ambler spends the bulk of “Coffin” poking fun at his protagonist’s idealized concepts of murder—and by extension the mystery genre’s still-strong desire to create entertainment out of bloodshed—ironies abound.”

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