Along the way, he runs across former lovers and colleagues, including Mr. Fascinated by Dimitrios' life story, the Dutch mystery author Cornelius Leyden (Peter Lorre) decides to turn it into a novel and travels to exotic locales such as Athens, Sofia and Paris in order to retrace the criminal's rise from fruit picker to master smuggler. A corpse identified as Dimitrios Markopoulos washes up on the beach, bringing an end to the career of the elusive international smuggler. Later, the police arrest Peters for Dimitrios' murder, and Leyden is left alone to write the story. While Leyden struggles with Dimitrios, the wounded Peters grabs a gun and kills Dimitrios. Dimitrios pays the men at a pre-arranged location, but later discovers where they are staying and shoots Peters.
Against his better judgment, Leyden agrees to Peters' blackmail plan. As the only person who saw the corpse and can confirm that it was not Dimitrios, Leyden is in a position to blackmail Dimitrios. Peters informs Leyden that the body he saw was not that of Dimitrios, who is alive and living in Paris. A curious Leyden now returns to Paris and meets with Peters, who is revealed to be Erik Peterson, a former member of Dimitrios' smuggling gang. Once he is in possession, Dimitrios double-crosses his employers and sells the charts to another government.
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When Bulic is hopelessly indebted to a professional gambler, Dimitrios asks him to steal the charts in return for clearing his debt. Grodek recalls the following story about Dimitrios: In order to get the charts, Dimitrios callously plays on the insecurities of Karel Bulic, a homely clerk married to a beautiful woman. Leyden then visits with Wladislaw Grodek, a former spymaster, who hired Dimitrios to steal the charts of certain mine fields. Peters then proposes that Leyden continue his investigation and promises that there will be a financial reward. Peters admits that he has followed Leyden from Athens and demands to know why he is interested in Dimitrios. Leyden returns to his hotel room and finds that Peters has searched it. Despite his promises, Dimitrios never returned the money. She tells him that years earlier, Dimitrios was involved in an assassination attempt and left the country using money borrowed from Irana. Leyden, meanwhile, moves on to Sofia, where he is introduced to Irana Preveza, a former lover of Dimitrios. When he learns the body has already been destroyed, he also travels to Athens.
Leyden decides that Dimitrios would be a wonderful character for a novel and leaves for Athens, where Dimitrios began his career. Most recently, Haki adds, Dimitrios worked in Paris as part of an international smuggling ring. Haki complies and then continues his story in Leyden's hotel room: Haki first became aware of the criminal in 1922, when Dimitrios, a Smyrnan fig picker, killed a man after a robbery and let another man be executed for the crime. Intrigued, Leyden asks to see the corpse. Later, at a musicale, Colonel Haki of the Turkish police starts to tell Dimitrios' story to Dutch mystery writer Cornelius Leyden. An identity card found on the body identifies the man as Dimitrios Makopoulus, a notorious international criminal. In 1938, a corpse is washed up on an Istanbul beach.
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