Born in Athens in 1953. He is a novelist, translator and film director. His translations include more than thirty crime novels by writers such as Hammett, Chandler, Highsmith, Charyn and Ellroy, on whom he has also written a number of studies. Besides crime fiction, he has also translated authors such as Stevenson, Kipling, Isherwood, London, Anderson, Huxley and Nabokov. As a film director, he has made two short movies and over sixty episodes for the acclaimed Greek television series Reportage sans frontieres and Paths
of Modern Thought.
 
ANDREAS APOSTOLIDIS

THE LOST GAME

CRIME NOVEL (152 pages, 17.5X12 cm.)
 

A corpse is found, hanged, in an apartment in Kolonaki, the fashionable district of central Athens, a few days after the military coup of 1967. Strange family relationships in an Athenian apartment building. A well-dressed police officer from the local police department is brought in on the case. Suspicious financial dealings have been going on between a lawyer and a film director, and among the occupants of the apartment building. The novel throws an ironic light on the world of Athens back in the late 1960s, on the close of the age of the light bourgeois Greek novel and cinema.