Traitors to All

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.

For other uses, see Betrayal (disambiguation) § Literature.
Traitors to All
AuthorGiorgio Scerbanenco
Original titleTraditori di tutti
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
PublisherGarzanti
Publication date
1966
Published in English
1970
Pages187

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". WorldCat. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  2. "Duca and the Milan murders". WorldCat. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  3. "Betrayal". WorldCat. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  4. "Traitors to all". WorldCat. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  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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