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Janwillem Van De Wetering
Full Series List in Order
A Grijpstra & De Gier Mystery
1 - Outsider in Amsterdam (Oct-1994)2 - Tumbleweed (1976)
3 - The Corpse on the Dike (1976)
4 - Death of a Hawker (1977)
5 - The Japanese Corpse (Aug-1977)
6 - The Blond Baboon (1978)
7 - The Maine Massacre (Jan-1979)
8 - The Mind-Murders (May-1988)
9 - The Streetbird (May-1983)
10 - The Rattle-Rat (Oct-1985)
11 - Hard Rain (Oct-1986)
12 - The Sergeant's Cat and Other Stories (Mar-1989)
13 - Just a Corpse at Twilight (Oct-1994)
14 - The Hollow-Eyed Angel (Jul-1996)
15 - The Perfidious Parrot (Oct-1997)
Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories (Jul-2003)
Book List in Order: 31 titles
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The Corpse on the Dike
- 1976
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Rarely did Grijpstra and de Gier encounter the sight that awaited them in the hovel on the dike: the body of a man with a bullet hole right between the eyes. Handguns are illegal in Holland--only a professional could have fired that shot. And why had...
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Tumbleweed
- 1976
- / Law Enforcement
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Though the Secret Service had expressed mild interest in sultry Maria van Buren because of her eminent "boyfriends," no one expected to find her as detectives Grijpstra and de Gier did: felled by a knife in her back. The Belgian diplomat, American co...
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Death of a Hawker
- 1977
- / Law Enforcement
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Amsterdam is normally sedate but today there is a riot in Newmarket Square. Constables have blocked access to adjoining Straight Tree Ditch Road all day. When the body of the "King" of the local street market is found in a room in his house on that s...
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The Japanese Corpse
- Aug-1977
- / Law Enforcement
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When the beautiful Japanese woman appeared in the grubby offices of Amsterdam's Murder Brigade, Grijpstra and de Gier were stunned to hear her story: she and the boyfriend she reported missing were part of the notorious Japanese crime syndicate, the ...
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The Blond Baboon
- 1978
- / Police Procedural
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He Was Her After-Hours Lover, Her Partner in Passion.Was He After More? Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier are summoned to investigate the death of Elaine Carnet, glamorous and successful international businesswoman. The corpse lay in a soaked heap ...
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The Maine Massacre
- Jan-1979
- / Police Procedural
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The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends the commissaris to the icy, secluded town of Jameson, Maine. As part of an international police exchange, de Gier goes along to see the USA. But when it appears the death of the commissaris's relative ...
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The Butterfly Hunter
- Sep-1982
- / Suspense
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Careening from the ashes of the Third Reich to the war-torn Central America of the eighties, Eddie Sachs, possessor of the secret to $100 million in Nazi gold, pursues his destiny, impelled by his belief in a second chance...
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The Streetbird
- May-1983
- / Law Enforcement
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The ninth Amsterdam Cops mysterySergeant 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. ...
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The Rattle-Rat
- Oct-1985
- / Police Procedural
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Douwe Scherjoen has been murdered, far from his native Friesland. This remote province of Holland is almost like a foreign country, so it's fortunate that Detective GrQpstra was born there. With Sergeant de Gier in tow, he heads across the dike to hi...
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Sergeant's Cat
- Sep-1987
- / General Fiction
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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 Gi...
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Distant Danger
- Jan-1988
- / Mystery
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First edition bound in black cloth and green boards. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Mild soiling to the book's upper page block. Stories by Edward D. Hoch, Joe Gores, Amada Cross and others....
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The Mind-Murders
- May-1988
- / Law Enforcement
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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...
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Seesaw Millions
- Nov-1988
- / Suspense
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An engaging and highly entertaining novel about the ups and downs of a caper gone awry
When old Mr. Sobryne dies, he leaves a fortune to his three sons and his mistress. In a message from beyond the grave, he instructs them on its profitable d... -
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Just a Corpse at Twilight
- Oct-1994
- / Police Procedural
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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 canâ€...
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Outsider in Amsterdam
- Oct-1994
- / Law Enforcement
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"[Van de Wetering] is doing what Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull." -- John LeonardOn a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, a man is found hanging from the ceiling beam of his bedroom, upstairs from the new religious...
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The Hollow-Eyed Angel
- Jul-1996
- / Police Procedural
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The commissaris is about to be retired from the Amsterdam police force when a volunteer policeman comes to him for help. A corpse has been found under an azalea bush in New York City's Central Park and although the local police don't agree, he fears ...
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The Perfidious Parrot
- Oct-1997
- / Police Procedural
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Grijpstra and de Gier are being blackmailed. A wealthy yacht owner and his son want the retired policemen to investigate tilt hijacking in the Caribbean of an entire cargo of oil from a supertanker. The threat is a serious one: to set the income tax ...
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Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories
- Jul-2003
- / Mystery
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For those who love Grijpstra and de Gier series set in Amsterdam, as well as newcomers, Amsterdam Cops brings together an enjoyable collection of short stories featuring the commissaris and their colleagues on the police force. These lively stories s...
