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Hard Rain

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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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.

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156947821X

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Outsider in Amsterdam

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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Outsider in Amsterdam

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

[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.

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1569478252

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9781569478257

The Mind-Murders

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Mind-Murders

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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.

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156947835X

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Afterzen

Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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Afterzen

Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

In Afterzen, van de Wetering provides unorthodox solutions to a collection of classical koans found in Walter Nowick's The Wisteria Triangle. Van de Wetering gives them his own distinctive touch of humor, down to earth reality, and tough spirituality in the context of meeting and adventures with personalities "collaged from bits and pieces of teachers and fellow students who kindly came my way." In this third book of the trilogy, van de Wetering is at his accessible, honest, funny, and genuinely spiritual best.

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Macmillan

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0312272618

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9780312272616

Tumbleweed

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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Tumbleweed

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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.

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1569470189

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Death of a Hawker

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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Death of a Hawker

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

A riot has erupted in New Market Square, transforming the normally sedate streets of Amsterdam into a mass of angry protesters. So when the body of the “King” of the local street market is found in his house with his head bashed in, the police are puzzled. The adjoining street has been closed off all day, and the constables stationed outside the scene of the crime didn’t detect any unusual activity. There are only two people who could have reasonably committed the violent act: the victim’s roommate upstairs and his beautiful sister downstairs. Both claim to have seen or heard nothing suspicious when the crime took place. But something isn’t adding up. Is one of them the killer?

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1569470790

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The Corpse on the Dike

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Corpse on the Dike

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

A recluse has been shot right between the eyes while standing at his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher and pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to report it. Is she guilty of murder? Grijpstra and de Gier will travel to whorehouses, through a shady electronics market and into the house of a very flashy potential suspect to find out.

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1569470499

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Hard Rain

By: Janwillem Van de Wetering

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Hard Rain

By: Janwillem Van de Wetering

In an attempt to solve the mysterious death of a wealthy banker, the Amsterdam Murder Brigade finds itself outside the limits of the law, using computer-based espionage and the risky influence of friends

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Ballantine Books

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0345339649

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9780345339645

A Glimpse of Nothingness

Experiences in an American Zen Community

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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A Glimpse of Nothingness

Experiences in an American Zen Community

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

The description of a Zen path of one Westerner who began by seeking for the sense of it all, and who came to realize at least a part of it.

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Macmillan

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0312209452

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9780312209452

The Empty Mirror

Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Empty Mirror

Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student—later a widely celebrated mystery writer—who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, has written, The Empty Mirror "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers." It is the first book in a trilogy that continues with A Glimpse of Nothingness and Afterzen.

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146687466X

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The Hollow-Eyed Angel

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Hollow-Eyed Angel

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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.

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1569478228

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The Streetbird

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Streetbird

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

The ninth Amsterdam Cops mystery Sergeant de Gier spots a vulture at the scene of a murder in Amsterdam’s red light district. The victim, a despicable and widely hated pimp, is now only a police matter to be disposed of with typical Dutch tidiness. However, once Grijpstra, de Gier and the canny commissaris get involved, their search leads to a denouement infinitely more shocking than the crime itself.

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1569478376

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Just a Corpse at Twilight

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Just a Corpse at Twilight

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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.

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1569478236

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Tumbleweed

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Tumbleweed

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Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier uncover evidence of sorcery as they investigate the murder of a high-class prostitute who lived in a canal houseboat

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0345331273

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The Maine Massacre

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Maine Massacre

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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.

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1569470642

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The Blond Baboon

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The Blond Baboon

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While in the neighborhood investigating a pet poisoner, Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police are called to the home of a wealthy, middle-aged woman, the former lover of a man known only as "The Baboon," when her body turns up in her garden.

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1569470634

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The Sergeant's Cat

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Sergeant's Cat

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

A collection of 13 short stories spanning two decades in the lives of van de Wetering's Amsterdam Cops Amsterdam isn’t exactly a hotbed of violent crime, but wrongdoing does occur, and the most bizarre cases tend to be passed to Grijpstra and de Gier. In one they investigate the death of a handsome oceanographer whose corpse is found amidst his tanks of shiny living mussels. In another they strong-arm a brutal crime lord whose henchman threatens the sergeant’s cat. Yet another leads them to uncover a most unusual murder weapon: a chocolate Easter bunny. With the curious blend of wit and the macabre readers have come to expect from the pen of Janwillem van de Wetering, the Amsterdam Cops have a way of seeing to it that justice, ultimately, is done.

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1616956984

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The Perfidious Parrot

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Perfidious Parrot

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

The fourteenth Amsterdam Cops Mystery Retired policemen Grijpstra and de Gier are being blackmailed. The threat is a serious one: to set the income tax authority on them. The blackmailers, a wealthy yacht owner and his son, want them to investigate the mysterious hijacking of a supertanker’s entire cargo in the Caribbean. The Amsterdam cops reluctantly agree to take the case. Their rendezvous is in Key West, where they are confronted with a murder.

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1569478260

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The Japanese Corpse

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The Japanese Corpse

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Investigating a case involving a murder in an Amsterdam suburb which is apparently the work of the dreaded yakusa, a Japanese version of the Mafia, Detectives De Gier and Grijpstra are led far afield to the holy city of Kyoto

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0345331281

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The Maine Massacre

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The Maine Massacre

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The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends Grijpstra—with his companion de Gier in tow—to Jamestown, Maine, where they find a town full of suspects and a series of shady real estate deals.

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1569478325

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Just a Corpse at Twilight

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The Blond Baboon

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The Hollow-Eyed Angel

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The Streetbird

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The Rattle-Rat

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The Rattle-Rat

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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 dispactched 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 unlikliest suspect of all.

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1569478368

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The Mind-Murders

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Mind-Murders

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1569470928

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Tumbleweed

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Tumbleweed

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Death of a Hawker

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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Death of a Hawker

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Hard Rain

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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Hard Rain

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The Sergeant's Cat

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik

The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader

By: J.K. Van Dover

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The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik

The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader

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From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee's world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture through his personal relationships with his wives, his lieutenants and the citizens he served with dedication on the emperor's behalf. This book gives a synopsis of each Judge Dee story, along with commentary on plots, characters, themes and historical details. Exploring van Gulik's influence on Chinese and Western detective fiction and on the image of China in popular 20th century American literature, this study brings to light a significant contributor to the development of detective fiction.

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