The House of the Seven Flies

The House of the Seven Flies is a 1952 thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning. The plot revolves around a quarter of a million pounds worth of diamonds stolen from an Amsterdam bank, and the death of the man to whom ex-British Army officer Edward Furse rents out his boat.

Film adaptation
In 1959 it was adapted into the film The House of the Seven Hawks directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey and Linda Christian.