Traitors to All explained

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.

Publication

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]

Reception

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Traditori di tutti. WorldCat. 81679364 . 2016-09-24.
  2. Book: Duca and the Milan murders. WorldCat. 159913 . 2016-09-24.
  3. Book: Betrayal. WorldCat. 820779935 . 2016-09-24.
  4. Book: Traitors to all. WorldCat. 858357181 . 2016-09-24.
  5. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Betrayal by Giorgio Scerbanenco. Publishers Weekly. 2016-09-24.
  6. Web site: Guide des Prix littéraires. French. Le Rayon du Polar. 31. 2016-09-24.