Amsterdam Cops

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569478252
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsider in Amsterdam written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Van de Wetering] is doing what Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull." —John Leonard On a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, a man is found hanging from the ceiling beam of his bedroom, upstairs from the new religious society he founded: a group that calls itself “Hindist” and supposedly mixes elements of various Eastern traditions. Detective-Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide, but they are immediately suspicious of the circumstances. This now-classic novel, first published in 1975, introduces Janwillem van de Wetering’s lovable Amsterdam cop duo of portly, wise Gripstra and handsome, contemplative de Gier. With its unvarnished depiction of the legacy of Dutch colonialism and the darker facets of Amsterdam’s free drug culture, this excellent procedural asks the question of whether a murder may ever be justly committed.

Author : Janwillem Van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Crime
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amsterdam Cops written by Janwillem Van de Wetering and published by Soho Crime. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen mystery stories featuring Dutch detective Henk Grijpstra and his assistant, Rinus de Gier, who use Zen philosophy to solve crimes. By a former Buddhist monk.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 156947821X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Rain written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a random break-in, three heroin addicts discover the corpse of banker Martin Ijsbreker. They arrange his death to look like a suicide and flee with his valuables, but are found dead of an overdose the next day. The investigating officer dismissed their deaths as an accident, but the commissaris suspects that his cousin and childhood nemesis, Willem Fernandus, murdered Ijsbreker to protect his own shares in the dead man’s bank. When the two finally confront each other as adversaries, someone will die.

Author : Peter Moskos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832268
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cop in the Hood written by Peter Moskos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift. Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 156947835X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind-Murders written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Fortune is suspected of murdering his wife. Grijpstra and de Gier begin a search that leads to the unidentified corpse of a man stuffed into the trunk of a stolen Mercedes. But where is the body of Mrs. Fortune? Tracking a killer without a corpse and a corpse without a killer, the Amsterdam cops finally arrive at the bonechilling truth.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 156947091X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollow-Eyed Angel written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteenth Amsterdam Cops mystery The commissaris is about to retire from the Amsterdam police force when volunteer officer Johan Termeer approaches him for help. Johan fears his elderly uncle has been murdered in faraway New York, the corpse found decimated by animals in Central Park. The commissaris agrees to look into the matter since he’s already heading to New York for a law enforcement convention, and brings Sergeant de Gier along with him.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569470642
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maine Massacre written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends the commissaris to the secluded town of Jameson, Maine. De Gier goes along to see the United States. But there has been a sinister pattern of deaths in the area, and the two find themselves neck-deep in a murder investigation involving shady real estate deals, with a townful of suspects and the icy breath of a cold-blooded killer stalking their every move.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569470189
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tumbleweed written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria van Buren, a beautiful, high-class prostitute, is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal. Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder. Her tony clients all have sound alibis. Before the murderer is caught, the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic, travel to Curaçao, and pursue the clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569478236
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just a Corpse at Twilight written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired Amsterdam policeman Grijpstra receives a frantic late-night phone call from his old partner, de Gier—now living on an island near Jameson, Maine—who fears he may have accidentally killed his girlfriend. He is being blackmailed and can’t remember if he did it; he was just too drunk. Would his old partner please fly over at once? Grijpstra grudgingly makes his way to the US to help his old partner and confronts his own demons along the way.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 156947057X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Corpse written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth Amsterdam Cops mystery A beautiful waitress at Amsterdam’s most elegant Japanese restaurant reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police search throughout the Netherlands and finally locate a corpse. But to find the killer, the commissaris and de Gier must travel to Japan and match wits with a yakuza chieftain in his lair.