A Coffin for Dimitrios vs Diamonds are Forever: Which Should You Read?

A Coffin for Dimitrios Eric Ambler · 1939 ★★★★☆ 4.0 255 pages · ≈ 4 h 43 m · Challenging

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the…

Diamonds are Forever Ian Fleming · 1956 ★★★★☆ 3.6 258 pages · ≈ 4 h 47 m · Moderate

“With its two fighting claws held forward like a wrestler's arms the big pandinus scorpion emerged with a dry rustle from the finger-sized hole under the rock.”

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call 'cutlets,' and some pink…