''Traitors to All'' () 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
''A Private Venus'' () is a 1966 detective novel by the Italian writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. It tells the story of how the former doctor Duca Lamberti is assigned to treat the alcoholic son of a millionaire, and begins to unveil the secrets surro ...
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Publication
The novel was originally published through Garzanti in Milan in 1966. It first appeared in English in 1970, translated by Eileen Ellenbogen as ''Duca and the Milan Murders''. A new translation by
Howard Curtis appeared in 2013 in the United Kingdom and 2014 in the United States.
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".
It received the French
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for best foreign novel in 1968.
References
External links
Italian publicity page
American publicity page
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1966 Italian novels
Italian crime novels
Italian mystery novels
Italian-language literature
Novels by Giorgio Scerbanenco
Novels set in Milan
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière winners