The Eunuch of Stamboul
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| Author | Dennis Wheatley |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Spy thriller |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
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Publication date
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1935 |
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The Eunuch of Stamboul is a 1935 spy thriller novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley.[1] A British army officer is forced to resign his commission to avoid a diplomatic incident. He is dispatched to Istanbul and uncovers a plot to overthrow the government of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and restore a traditionalist sultantate, led by a eunuch who serves as a senior secret policeman in the present government.[2]
Film adaptation
The following year it was made into a film The Secret of Stamboul directed by Andrew Marton and staarring James Mason, Valerie Hobson and Kay Walsh.[3]
References
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
- Tougher, Shaun. The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society. Routledge, 2009.
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