Born on this day – Helena Rojo:

Helena Rojo

Actress

August 18, 1944 – February 3, 2024

Born on this day – Dan Ziskie:

Dan Ziskie

Actor

Photographer

August 13, 1944 – July 21, 2025

Credits:

24 (2006); A Year in the Life (1988); ABC Afterschool Specials (1981); Absolute Strangers (1991); Adventures in Babysitting (1987); American Playhouse (1981); As the World Turns (1991–2010); Bad Company (2002); Blindspot (2016); Blue Bloods (2017); Carly's Web (1987); Chappelle's Show (2004); Concussion (2015); Cupid (2009); Dangerous Passion (1990); DEA (1991); Dead Canaries (2003); Dong Jing shen pan (2006); Easy Street (1987); Ed (2002–2003); Eight Below (2006); Elementary (2016); Emunah (2016); ER (1999); Ghostwriter (1992–1993); Gossip Girl (2007–2010); Gotham (2015); Highway to Heaven (1987); Home Free (1988); Hope & Faith (2003); House of Cards (2013–2017); House of Cards: Politics for the Sake of Politics (2014); Hunter (1987); Important Things with Demetri Martin (2009); In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas (1991); Isn't She Great (2000); Key Exchange (1985); Kinsey (2004); Kojak: Fatal Flaw (1989); L.A. Law (1987–1989); Last Holiday (2006); Law & Order (1995–2006); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2002–2007); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2001–2003); Line of Fire (2004); Louie (2010); Madam Secretary (2018); Mercy (2016); Murphy Brown (1989); NCIS (2005); New York, I Love You (2008); Newhart (1987); Nova (2015 / 2017); NYPD Blue (2005); O.C. and Stiggs (1985); Paper Dolls (1984); Person of Interest (2012); Prince of Central Park (2000); Prism (2015); Quantum Leap (1990); Queens Supreme (2003); Remington Steele (1986); Satan's Little Helper (2004); Sex and the City (2002); Shades of Blue (2018); Show Me a Hero (2015); Snoops (1989); Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1998); Sons and Daughters (1991); St. Elsewhere (1987); Step Up 3D (2010); Synecdoche, New York (2008); Texas (1981); The Bite (2021); The Blacklist (2014); The Edge of Night (1980); The Equalizer (1987); The Firm (1983); The Good Wife (2013); The Jackal (1997); The Man with One Red Shoe (1985); The Necklace (2019); The Practice (1999); The Reawakening (2004); The Rebound (2009); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1971); The West Wing (2003); Third Watch (2001); Thirteen Days (2000); Treme (2011–2013); Trinity (1998); Troop Beverly Hills (1989); Twisted (1985); Ugly Betty (2009); Undermind (2003); Vital Signs (1990); War of the Worlds (2005); WIOU (1990); Zebrahead (1992); Zero Hour (2013).

Born on this day – Nicoletta Machiavelli:

Nicoletta Machiavelli

Actress

August 1, 1944 – November 15, 2015

Credits:

A History of Dollars (2008); A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1967); A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970); An Indian Named Joe (2009); Anyone Can Play (1967); Bawdy Tales (1973); Beyond Good and Evil (1977); Candy (1968); Carnal Circuit (1969); Dirty Weekend (1973); Especial pop (1969); Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012); Evil Pleasure (1975); Garter Colt (1968); I nostri mariti / Segment: Il Marito di Roberta (1966); It Takes a Thief (1969); Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966); La coppia (1973); La fuite en avant (1980); L'amante dell'Orsa Maggiore (1971); L'année sainte (1976); L'autunno del generale (1982); L'homme au cerveau greffé (1972); Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua (1973); Matchless (1967); Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973); Navajo Joe (1966); Necropolis (1970); No Room to Die (1969); No Way Out (1973); Odia il prossimo tuo (1968); Policeman (1971); Review (1969); Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? (1969); Someone Is Bleeding (1974); Temptation (1969); That Most Important Thing: Love (1975); The Hills Run Red (1966); The Ravine (1969); Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969); Thrilling / Segment: L'autostrada del sole (1965); Tough Cop (1976); Una questione d'onore (1966).

On this day in movie history - Seven Doors to Death (1944):

Seven Doors to Death

aka Vanishing Corpses,

directed and written by Elmer Clifton,

based on a story by Helen Kiely,

was released in the United States on July 27, 1944.
Music by Lee Zahler.

Cast:

Chick Chandler, June Clyde, George Meeker, Michael Raffetto, Gregory Gaye, Edgar Dearing, Rebel Randall, Milton Wallace, Casey MacGregor, Gene Roth.

Born on this day – Quentin Dean:

Quentin Dean

Actress

July 27, 1944 – May 7, 2003

Credits:

Lancer (1969); The High Chaparral (1969); The F.B.I. (1969); Mod Squad (1969); The Virginian (1968); The Young Runaways (1968); Stay Away, Joe (1968); The Big Valley (1967); Will Penny (1967); Judd for the Defense (1967); In the Heat of the Night (1967).

Born on this day – Celeste Yarnall:

Celeste Yarnall

Actress

July 26, 1944 – October 7, 2018

Credits:

A New Kind of Love (1963); A Shattered Dream (1990); Ambition (1991); America Loves... Star Trek (2001); Around the World Under the Sea (1966); Beast of Blood (1970); Bewitched (1966); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Bonanza (1968); Born Yesterday (1993); Brewed in Brooklyn (2013); Burke's Law (1963); Captain Nice (1967); Civil Wars (1993); Daughters of Privilege (1991); Drive-in Movie Memories (2001); Driving Me Crazy (1991); Elvis Found Alive (2012); Elvis on Tour (1972); Eve (1968); Fatal Beauty (1987); Femme (2013); Find Your Future Reality (2018); Funny About Love (1990); Gidget (1966); Hogan's Heroes (1968); In Name Only (1969); Insight (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); It's Your Bet (1971); Knots Landing (1990); Land of the Giants (1968); Live a Little, Love a Little (1968); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Postal Meeter (1973); Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010); Mannix (1969); McMillan & Wife (1972); Melrose Place (1995–1998); Metaltech: Earthsiege (1994); Midnight Kiss (1993); My Three Sons (1962–1963); Ransom for a Dead Man (1971); Scorpio (1973); Shrink Rap (2003); Sisters (1994); Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); That's My Baby (2002); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962); The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969); The Cure (2018); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years (2002); The F.B.I. (1968); The Green Girl (2014); The Hollywood Stars of Tomorrow Awards (1967); The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972); The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2011); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Mechanic (1972); The Nation's Favourite Elvis Song (2013); The Nutty Professor (1963); The Seven Ages of Elvis (2017); The Survivors (1969); The Two Sisters (2007); The Velvet Vampire (1971); The Wild Wild West (1965); Unbelievable!!!!! (2020); Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963); We the People (2018); William Shatner's Get a Life! (2012).

Born on this day – Peter Jason:

Peter Jason

Actor

Producer

Cinematographer

July 22, 1944 – February 20, 2025

Credits:

4TH NAFCA: African Oscar (2014); 48 Hrs. (1982); 13th Child (2002); 1600 Penn (2013); A Bell for Adano (1967); A Different World (1992); A Reason to Live (1985); A Whole New Ballgame (1995); A Woman in the West (2008); Adaptation. (2002); Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011); Afterburn (1992); Agent Stoker (2021); Agua Dulce (2003); Air America (1998); Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980); Alien Apocalypse (2005); Alien Nation (1988); Almost a Woman (2002); Amazing Stories (1985); American Black Beauty (2005); Angel (1983); Angel on My Shoulder (1980); Annie Claus Is Coming to Town (2011); Annie McGuire (1988); Another Life (2020); Anywhere, U.S.A. (2017); Arachnophobia (1990); Arli$$ (1999); Arrested Development (2004–2013); B.J. and the Bear (1980); Baskets (2017–2019); Batman Beyond (1999); Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999); Batman: The Animated Series (1992); Beaverton (2009); Beyond the Universe (1981); Big John (2006); Billionaire Boys Club (1987); Body Bags / Segment: The Gas Station (1993); BoomBastiCAST (2022–2023); Brewster's Millions (1985); Brick Novax's Diary (2011); Butterfly (1981); Cagney & Lacey (1982); Cahoots (2001); Carnivàle (2003); Castle (2009); Cesar Chavez (2014); Chuck (2010); Cimarron Strip (1968); Claire (2007); Coach (1994); Cody the Robosapien (2013); Cold Case (2010); Combat Radio: A Christmas Carol (2022); Combat Radio: A Christmas Carol 2023 (2023); Command 5 (1985); Confessions of an Action Star (2005); Congo (1995); Conjuring Orson (2014); Convicted (1986); Cover Up (1985); Crash and Burn (2008); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2012); Daddy Issues (2018); Daniel Boone (1969); Dante's Peak (1997); Darkwatch: Curse of the West (2005); Dead Talk Live (2022); Deadwood (2004–2006); Deadwood: The Movie (2019); Dear John (1992); Deconstructing Sarah (1994); Deep in the Forest (2021); Desperate Housewives (2006–2007); Detonator (2003); Dirty Sexy Money (2007); Disaster on the Coastliner (1979); Disney·Pixar Learning: 2nd & 3rd Grade (2002); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1994); Dreamscape (1984); Eat or Be Eaten (1985); Eiga Doraemon: Shin Nobita no daimakyô (2014); Employee of the Month (2004); Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980); Escape from L.A. (1996); Falling Up (2009); Fallout 2: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (1998); Fast Track (1997); Filthy Rich (1982); Finding Kelly (2000); Five Houses (1998); For Love and Honor (1983); Foreign Land (2016); From the Dead of Night (1989); From the Head (2011); Frostbite (2005); Funny or Die Presents... / Segment: Brick Novax's Diary (2011); Gears of War 2 (2008); Gears of War 3 (2011); Gemini Division (2008); Get Married or Die (2018); Ghost of New Orleans (2011); Ghosts of Mars (2001); Gigi: Almost American (2014); Greatest Ever Disaster Movies (2007); Gunsmoke (1970–1973); Hail, Caesar! (2016); Hair High (2004); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995); Hard Cash (2002); Hard Knocks (1987); Hart to Hart (1980–1982); Hawaii Five-O (1971); Heal Thyself (2012); Heartbreak Ridge (1986); Heavenly Deposit (2019); Here Come the Brides (1969); Herman's Head (1992); High & Outside: A Baseball Noir (2017); Hopelessly in June (2011); How to Make Love to a Woman (2010); Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986); Impulse (1984); In the Mouth of Madness (1994); Inside the Crazy Ant Farm (2022); Intervention (2008); It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned (2016); Izzy & Moe (1985); Jack in the Box (1989); Jackie Chan Adventures (2003); JAG (1995); Java Heads: The Movie (1997); John Carpenter: Fear Is Just the Beginning... The Man and His Movies (2004); John from Cincinnati (2007); Johnny Handsome (1989); Judd for the Defense (1968); Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018); Justified (2010); Kicking & Screaming (2005); Knights of the Kitchen Table (1990); Knots Landing (1990); Kung Fu (1972); Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1996); La ilegal (1979); Laguna Heat (1987); Land of the Giants (1970); Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013); Live from Baghdad (2002); Locked In (2010); Longmire (2016); Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003); Mad Men (2008); Marked for Death (1990); Married... with Children (1993); Measure (2014); Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II - Picture Show (1994); Men in Black: The Series (1999); Mending Fences (2009); Merkin Penal (2013); Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1973); Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998); Milk (2008); Mister Roberts (1984); Mister Sterling (2003); Mixels (2015–2016); Mommie Dearest (1981); Mortal Kombat (1995); Moving McAllister (2007); Murder in the Mirror (2000); Murder One (1997); Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer (1997); Murder, She Wrote (1995); Nash Bridges (1998–1999); NCIS (2009–2018); Nice Dreams (1981); On Air with Ka$h (2022); One Day at a Time (1978); Orson Welles: Shadows and Light (2015); Out of the Wilderness (1998); Oxford Blues (1984); Party Camp (1987); Passport (2014); Patients (2004); Perfect Strangers (1991); Perversions of Science (1997); Pinky and the Brain (1997); Planet Raptor (2007); Prince of Darkness (1987); Proposition 8 Trial Re-Enactment (2010); Providence (2001); Q N' A with Mikki and Shay (2014); Quantum Leap (1991); Queen City (2013); Rage (1995); Raising the Bar (2009); Raptor Island (2004); Red Desert Nights: Making 'Ghosts of Mars' (2001); Red Heat (1988); Remington Steele (1984–1986); Return to Zero (2014); Richard III (2007); Rio Lobo (1970); Riptide (1985); River Guard (2016); Road Back (2017); Roseanne (1993); Saint Judy (2018); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); Scoring Ghosts of Mars (2001); Scorpion (2014); Seabiscuit (2003); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1983); Shadow on the Land (1968); Significant Others (2004); Silver Spoons (1982); Sister Cities (2016); Some Kind of Hero (1982); Son of Morning (2011); Splendor in the Grass (1981); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); Starsky and Hutch (1979); Streets of Fire (1984); Students Like Us (2012); Subversion: Exposing John Carpenter's They Live (2018); Sunset (1988); Surviving Christmas (2004); Tale of 2 Fathers (2022); Texas Lightning (1981); The Adventures of Black Feather (1995); The Assent (2019); The Baltimore Bullet (1980); The Betty Ford Story (1987); The Blue and the Gray (1982); The Christmas Card (2006); The Condo (2015); The Demolitionist (1995); The Downside of Bliss (2020); The Driver (1978); The Enigma with a Stigma (2006); The F.B.I. (1968); The Fighter & the Kid 3D (2016); The Final Analysis (2015); The Fuzz (2010); The Glimmer Man (1996); The Go to Guy: Peter Jason on John Carpenter (2016); The Golden Girls (1986); The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (1980); The Hunt for Red October (1990); The Incredible Hulk (1980); The Jackie Thomas Show (1993); The Karate Kid (1984); The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson (2017); The Long Riders (1980); The Man Who Came Back (2008); The Naked Truth (1997); The New Batman Adventures (1997–1998); The New Mike Hammer (1987); The New Woody Woodpecker Show (1999–2002); The Nth Ward (2017); The Other Side of the Wind (2018); The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004); The Return of Captain Nemo (1978); The Rose Technique (2002); The Secret World of Arrietty (2010); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006); The Terror of Hallow's Eve (2017); The Way of the Karate Kid (2005); The Young Lawyers (1970); They Live (1988); They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018); Tiger, Tiger (1969); Titus (2000–2001); Trick or Treats (1982); Undisputed (2002); Valley Girls (1996); Valley of the Sun (2011); Village of the Damned (1995); We Are Gathered Here Today (2022); Webster (1984–1988); Welcome to Forever (2015); Wild Bill (1995); Willow Creek (2013); Wind in the Wire (1993); Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1995); Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997); With This Ring (1978); Women: Stories of Passion (1997); Working with Orson Welles (1993).

Born on this day – Lynn Loring:

Lynn Loring

Actress

Producer

July 14, 1944 – December 23, 2023

Credits:

A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); And Baby Makes Three (1966); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951–1958); Black Noon (1971); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1967); Bonanza (1966); Burke's Law (1966); Bus Stop (1961); CBS Repertoire Workshop (1960); Circle of Fear (1972); Daniel Boone (1964); Don't Go to Sleep (1982); Fair Exchange (1962–1963); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); Frontiers of Faith (1955); General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957); Glitter (1984–1985); Gunsmoke (1963); Hands of Mystery (1951); Hotel (1983); Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969); Kraft Theatre (1958); Lamp Unto My Feet (1952); Lancer (1968–1970); Making of a Male Model (1983); Matt Houston (1982); Me and the Kid (1993); Mod Squad (1970–1972); Mr. Mom (1983); Mr. Novak (1964); My Three Sons (1968); Omnibus (1955); Perry Mason (1964); Play of the Week (1960); Police Woman (1974); Pressure Point (1962); Proudly I Love (1953); Return to Peyton Place (1973); Robert Montgomery Presents (1953); Scared Silly (1982); Search for Tomorrow (1951–1961); Sizzle (1981); Special for Women: Mother and Daughter (1961); Splendor in the Grass (1961); Starlight Theatre (1951); Studio One (1952–1954); Target: The Corruptors (1962); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Best Little Girl in the World (1981); The Big Valley (1965); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The Defenders (1961–1964); The Desperate Miles (1975); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The F.B.I. (1965); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973); The Immortal (1970); The Invaders (1967); The Jean Carroll Show (1953–1954); The Kansas City Massacre (1975); The Man Behind the Badge (1954); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1962); The Return of Mod Squad (1979); The Stranger (1955); The Web (1951); The Wild Wild West (1966); The Young Lawyers (1971); Timeshift (2006); Wagon Train (1962).

On this day in movie history - Double Indemnity (1944 movie & books):

Double Indemnity

directed by Billy Wilder,

written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler,

based on the novel by James M. Cain,

was released in the United States on July 3, 1944.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, Fortunio Bonanova, John Philliber, Raymond Chandler, Bess Flowers, Betty Farrington, Teala Loring, Sam McDaniel, Miriam Nelson, Douglas Spencer.

Recommended reading:

Double Indemnity

By James M. Cain.

Filmed as:

Double Indemnity (1944), directed by Billy Wilder.

Double Indemnity (1973), directed by Jack Smight.

Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

Published 1943.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 9780679723226

ISBN-13: 9780679723226

Description:

“An American masterpiece.” – Ross Macdonald.

“No one has ever stopped reading in the middle of one of Jim Cain’s books.” – Saturday Review of Literature.

Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.

Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay

By Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, Jeffrey Meyers.

Published by University of California Press.

Published 2000.

ISBN-10: 0520218485

ISBN-13: 9780520218482

Description:

On every level -- writing, direction, acting -- Double Indemnity (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role. From its grim story to its dark, atmospheric lighting, Double Indemnity is a definitive example of World War II-era film noir. Wilder's approach is everywhere evident: in the brutal cynicism the film displays, the moral complexity, and in the empathy we feel for the killers. The film received almost unanimous critical success, garnering seven Academy Award nominations. More than fifty years later, most critics agree that this classic is one of the best films of all time. The collaboration between Wilder and Raymond Chandler produced a masterful script and some of the most memorable dialogue ever spoken in a movie.

This facsimile edition of Double Indemnity contains Wilder and Chandler's original -- and quite different -- ending, published here for the first time. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction contextualizes the screenplay, providing hilarious anecdotes about the turbulent collaboration, as well as background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.

Born on this day – Emilio Echevarría:

Emilio Echevarría

Actor

July 3, 1944 – January 4, 2025

Credits:

4 November 1990 (2012); A Monster with a Thousand Heads (2015); Ámbar (1994); Loves Dogs (2000); Babel (2006); Bad Habits (2007); Bathroom Intimacy (1991); Colosio (2012); Corto Mx (2012); Cronos (1992); De Mesmer, con amor or Té para dos (2002); Desde el cristal con que se mire (1984); Die Another Day (2002); The charm of the Águila (2011); The Dead Sea (2010); In Self-Defense (2015); Philosophy Natural of Love (2014); Cries of Death and Freedom (2010); Intimacy (1989); Jacarandas (2017); Knock Out (2025); The singer who wanted to be like Janis Joplin (1987); The nao of China (2004); The Last Moon (1990); Life Kills (2002); Ana's footsteps (1991); Los perros from 'Amores perros' (2000); Those who make our cinema (1993); The Simulators (2009); Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011); Dying in the gulf (1990); Mozart in the Jungle (2015–2016); Novia que te vea (1994); Prelude (1999); Quatremares (2025); Sex and Other Secrets (2007); Sin memoria (2010); Events distant (1996); T.A.P. Professional Actors Workshop (2013); The Alamo (2004); The Chosen (2016); The double and only woman (2018); The Dream of Lu (2011); The Night Buffalo (2007); Three Rabbits (2015); A crucial day for Ausencio Paredes (1987); An Ice Lava Volcano (1994); Words with Gods (2014); And Your Mom Too (2001).

On this day in movie history - The Mask of Dimitrios (1944 movie & novel):

The Mask of Dimitrios

directed by Jean Negulesco,

written by Frank Gruber,

based on the novel A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler,

was released in the United States on July 1, 1944.

Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:

Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Steven Geray, Florence Bates, Eduardo Ciannelli, Kurt Katch, Marjorie Hoshelle, Georges Metaxa, John Abbott, Monte Blue, David Hoffman.

Recommended reading:

A Coffin for Dimitrios

By Eric Ambler.

Filmed as The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), directed by Jean Negulesco.

Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.

Published 1939.

ISBN-10: 0375726713

ISBN-13: 9780375726712

Description:

"Our greatest thriller writer." – Graham Greene.

"Anyone who hasn't read Ambler is in for a real treat." – The Washington Post Book World.

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.

Born on this day – Paul Koslo:

Paul Koslo

Actor

June 27, 1944 – January 9, 2019