Judgment on Deltchev
First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Eric Ambler |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Alfred A. Knopf (US) |
Publication date | 1951 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| OCLC | 978598449 |
| Preceded by | Journey into Fear |
| Followed by | The Schirmer Inheritance |
Judgment on Deltchev is a 1951 novel by Eric Ambler. It was his first solo novel for eleven years (not counting a novel written with Charles Rodda under the pseudonym Eliot Reed), and Ambler was worried about producing a bad novel, but did not. The book is a courtroom drama based on the show trial of Bulgarian politician Nikola Petkov. It provoked hostile responses from Communist fellow travellers.
It is regarded as one of Ambler's finest books. James Fenton called the book "Ambler's best novel... the most interesting politically and the most profound".