✍ Scribed by Ambler, Eric
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“The maestro is back again, with all his sinister magic intact.” –The New York Times Book Review
“Genuine excitement . . . neat, brisk and altogether admirable.” –The New Yorker
“Judgment on Deltchev is a haunted manse–and you’ll venture in at your peril. Once you’re there, you’ll stay till the end.” –The New York Times
“Vintage Ambler . . . readers of intrigue can settle under their reading lamps with a contented sigh.” –Chicago Tribune
Foster’s dramatic skill is well-known in London’s West End theaters. So perhaps it wasn’t so surprising when he was hired by an American newspaper publisher to cover the trial of Yordan Delchev for treason. Accused of membership in the sinister Officer Corps Brotherhood and of masterminding a plot to assassinate his country’s leader, Delchev may in fact be a pawn and his trial all show. But when Foster meets Madame Delchev, the accused’s powerful wife, he suddenly become enmeshed in more life-threatening intrigue than he could have imagined.
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### There was nothing in Foster's career as a playwright that would prepare him for covering a political trial in Eastern Europe. But when he is asked by an American newspaper to report on the trial of Yordan Deltchev, the former leader of the People's Party now facing charges of treason, he cannot
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