Traitors to All
AuthorGiorgio Scerbanenco
Original titleTraditori di tutti
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
PublisherGarzanti
Publication date
1966
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.

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]

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.
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