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The Eunuch of Stamboul
1935 novel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Eunuch of Stamboul is a 1935 spy thriller novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley.[1] A British army officer is forced to resign his commission to avoid a diplomatic incident. He is dispatched to Istanbul and uncovers a plot to overthrow the government of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and restore a traditionalist sultanate, led by a eunuch who serves as a senior secret policeman in the present government.[2]
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Film adaptation
The following year it was made into a film The Secret of Stamboul, directed by Andrew Marton and starring James Mason, Valerie Hobson and Kay Walsh.[3]
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