Outsider In Amsterdam

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569478252
Total Pages : 182 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 182 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 : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345331267
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsider in Amsterdam written by Janwillem Van de Wetering and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1986-10-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detectives Grijpstra and de Grier, middle-aged family man and modish bachelor, investigate the murder of the owner of a run-down restaurant in Amsterdam's old quarter

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 : 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9781569472101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam Cops written by Janwillem Van de Wetering and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved Amsterdam Cops - Henrik Grijpstra and Rinus de Gier - have appeared in fourteen novels and thirteen short stories. All of the stories are now collected in this volume and are published here for the first time in paperback. 'The changes van de Wetering rings on the short-story formula do more than any other recent writer's work to inspire confidence in the form.' Kirkus Review 'Excellent news for fans...a series of first class crime stories.' - Bookman News

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569471037
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rattle-Rat written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douwe Scherjoen was a well-to-do livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland. Then his corpse was found, half-charred by flames, floating in a dory in Amsterdam's harbor. No one knows why he was in the nation's capital, far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum. But since Grijpstra is Friesian by birth and can understand the dialect, he and his partner de Gier are dispatched to find the killer—or at least the motive for the crime. And they discover that while no one, not even his wife, liked the victim, the culprit is the unlikeliest suspect of all.

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 : 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 : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569470758
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( 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: In the twelfth book in an acclaimed series, retired Amsterdam policeman Henk Grijpstra gets a frantic telephone call from his old partner, Rinus de Gier, who thinks he may have killed his girlfriend. He is being blackmailed and can’t remember if he did it; he was just too drunk. But if he did, where is the corpse? Would his old partner please fly over to the US at once? Urged on by their former superior officer, the commissaris, Grijpstra grudgingly travels to Maine to rescue his partner and to confront his own demons as well as de Gier’s.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569478309
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corpse on the Dike written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recluse has been shot right between the eyes as he stood looking out of his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher who is a pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to report it. Is she really guilty of murder?