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The Light of Day is a 1962 novel by Eric Ambler. Arthur Abdel Simpson, the narrator, was born in Egypt to an Egyptian mother and a British soldier father...

Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to...

Light of Day (Eric Ambler novel), a 1962 novel by Eric Ambler The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel), a 2003 novel by Graham Swift "The Light of Day"...

of the Life and Adventures of Arthur Abdel Simpson is a 1967 novel by Eric Ambler. It was also published as This Gun for Hire. The book continues the...

(previous title The Light of Day (Eric Ambler novel)), a 1962 tragi-comic art heist spy novel Topkapı Scroll, a Timurid dynasty pattern scroll at the Topkapı...

Passage of Arms is a 1959 novel by Eric Ambler. Girija Krishnan, a bookkeeper at a rubber plantation in Malaya, has one ambition in life: to found and...

A Kind of Anger is a novel by British thriller writer Eric Ambler, first published in 1964. Like many of Ambler's post-war novels the thriller plot is...

Artists. The film was produced and directed by the émigré American film director Jules Dassin. The film is based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day (1962)...

1963 and 1972 novels by John Boland such as The League of Gentlemen (1958) and The Golden Fleece (1961) The Light of Day (1962) by Eric Ambler (filmed as...

century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes...

Fleming was "the best new English thriller-writer since [Eric] Ambler" and The Observer, which advised their readers: "don't miss this". The critic for...

The Green Hat, about the same set of people as described in Checkmate, was a huge success in 1924. Eric Ambler's The Light of Day (1964), which was filmed...

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel was established in 1954. Only hardcover novels written by a published American author are eligible. Paperback...

spy fiction with elements of science fiction. Spy thriller: the most common subgenre of spy fiction Edward Aarons Eric Ambler Desmond Bagley Kenneth Benton...

and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections. His...

known as "The Friendliest Port" – The Ambler". 11 December 2012. Longo, Eric K. (8 July 2010). "Mauretania 75th Anniversary". Liners of the Edwardian...

The CWA Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year...

a Blue Dress, was the basis of a 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington, and the following year, a ten part abridgement of the novel by Margaret Busby...

(1922), The Midlander (1924), The Plutocrat (1927) and Claire Ambler (1928). He produced both of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels during the same period...

Dashiell Hammett, Eric Ambler and Graham Greene as influences. William Cook in the New Statesman considered James Bond to be "the culmination of an important...