Traitors to All

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Traitors to All
Author Giorgio Scerbanenco
Original titleTraditori di tutti
LanguageItalian
PublisherGarzanti
Publication date
1966
Publication placeItaly
Published in English
1970
Pages187

Traitors to All (Italian : Traditori di tutti) 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 .

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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]

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References

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