Outsider in Amsterdam (Amsterdam Cops) - Softcover

Wetering, Janwillem Van De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569470170 ISBN 13: 9781569470176

Verlag: Soho Press Inc, 2003

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Book by Van De Wetering Janwillem

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On a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, the founder of a new religious society/commune—a group that calls itself “Hindist” and mixes elements of various “Eastern” traditions—is found hanging from a ceiling beam. 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, worldly-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.

Biografía del autor

Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008) was born and raised in Rotterdam, but lived most recently in Surry, Maine. He served as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary and was once a Zen Buddhist monk. He is renowned for his detective fiction, including Outsider in Amsterdam, The Corpse on the Dike, The Japanese Corpse, and eleven other books in the Grijpstra and de Gier series.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Soho Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1569470170
• ISBN 13: 9781569470176
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296