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The Light of Day

  • Eric Ambler

3.00

3 ratings

Arthur Simpson is a petty thief who is discovered stealing from a hotel room. His victim, however, turns out to be a criminal in a league well above his own and Simpson is blackmailed into smuggling arms into Turkey for use in a major jewel robbery. The Turkish police, however, discover the arms and he is further 'blackmailed' by them into spying on the 'gang' - or rot in a Turkish jail. However, agreeing to help brings even worse danger ....

Genres

  • Jewel thieves
  • Criminals
  • Fiction in English
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers, espionage
  • Fiction, thrillers, suspense
  • Criminals, fiction
  • Greece, fiction
  • Turkey, fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • Espionage
  • Fiction, suspense
  • Thriller
  • Arthur Abdel Simpson (Fictitious character)
  • Edgar Award
  • English fiction
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About the author

  • Eric Ambler

    June 28, 1909 - October 22, 1998

    3.52

    21 ratings · 57 works

Editions

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    Four Square

    1965

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    Yapi Kredi Yayinlari

    Nov 01, 2021

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    Oscar Mondadori

    1965

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    House of Stratus

    2010

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Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance

Jul 12, 2016

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    Alfred A. Knopf

    1962

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    1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.

    Vintage Books

    2004

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    Diogenes Verlag

    January 1, 1978

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    Amereon Limited

    May 1986

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    Lichtenberg

    1965

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    Diogenes

    1969

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    Knopf

    1963-01-01

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    Alfred A. Knopf

    1963-01-01

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    Bantam Books

    1964-01-01

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    Knopf

    1962-01-01

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    Alfred A. Knopf

    1963-01-01

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    Alfred A. Knopf

    1962-01-01

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    Book Club Associates

    1964-01-01

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2023

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    British Library, The

    2016

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    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

    2011

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2023

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    The Reprint Society

    1964

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    Fontana

    1972

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    Abridged Ed edition

    OUP China

    March 8, 1979

  • Edition cover

    2138

    Books On Tape

    May 1988

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    Blackstone Audiobooks

    August 1997

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    Éditions du Seuil

    1992

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    Reprint Society

    1964

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    Books on Tape, Inc.

    October 1, 1987

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    Seuil

    1992

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    Berkley

    January 1, 1985

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    [1st American ed.]

    Knopf

    1963

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    Fontana

    1979

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    Knopf

    1962

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    Heinemann

    1962

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    Knopf

    1962

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    Carroll & Graf Publishers

    April 1992

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    Heinemann

    1962

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    Ballantine Books

    April 12, 1978

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    Diogenes

    1969

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    Large Prnt edition

    Ulverscroft Large Print Books

    June 1976

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    Oscar Mondadori

    1965