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A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

Eric Ambler

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Eric Ambler
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: June 28
Died: 1998
Died: October 23
Actor
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Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
Eric Clifford Ambler
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Searched
Millions
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