Giorgio Scerbanenco

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Giorgio Scerbanenco (birth name in Russian Владимир Щербаненко, in Ukrainian Володимир Щербаненко) was an Italian crime writer.

He was born in Kiev, in what was then the Russian Empire, on 28 July 1911. At an early age, his family immigrated to Rome (Scerbanenco's father was Russian, his mother was Italian), and then he moved to Milan when he was 18 years old.

He found work as a freelance writer for many Italian magazines before becoming a novelist. While Scerbanenco wrote in several genres, he is famous in Italy for his crime and detective novels, many of which have been dramatized in Italian film and television [1]. These stories include his series of novels having as main character Duca Lamberti, a physician struck off the medical register for having performed an euthanasia, and turned detective (Venere privata, 1966; Traditori di tutti, 1966; I ragazzi del massacro, 1968; I milanesi ammazzano al sabato, 1969) and Sei giorni di preavviso (Six Days of Notice).

He died of a heart attack in Milan on 27 October 1969.