Traitors to All | |
Author: | Giorgio Scerbanenco |
Title Orig: | Traditori di tutti |
Country: | Italy |
Language: | Italian |
Publisher: | Garzanti |
Pub Date: | 1966 |
English Pub Date: | 1970 |
Pages: | 187 |
Traitors to All is a 1966 detective novel by the Italian writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. It is known as Betrayal in the United Kingdom. It tells the story of a former medical doctor who becomes involved in a criminal plot involving a mysterious suitcase left with him. It is the second installment of Scerbanenco's Milano Quartet and follows A Private Venus.
The novel was originally published through Garzanti in Milan in 1966.[1] It first appeared in English in 1970, translated by Eileen Ellenbogen as Duca and the Milan Murders.[2] A new translation by Howard Curtis appeared in 2013 in the United Kingdom and 2014 in the United States.[3] [4]
In 2013, Publishers Weekly described the book as an "excellent crime novel" and wrote that Scerbanenco "smartly and logically weaves all the various plot threads together".[5]
It received the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for best foreign novel in 1968.[6]