Epitaph for a Spy

In Epitaph for a Spy, Eric Ambler puts his own unique spin on the classic English country-house murder, as the crime committed is not murder but espionage, and the locale is not the English countryside but a hotel in southern France. The book’s narrator, Josef Vadassy, is an ordinary Hungarian teacher who finds himself accused by the authorities of taking suspicious photographs, and the police leverage his expired passport to obtain his cooperation. But that is only the start of Josef's troubles, and Ambler populates the novel with a number of interesting international characters.