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Nicolas Freeling
Full Series List in Order
A Henry Castang Mystery
1 - A Dressing of Diamond (1974)2 - The Bugles Blowing (1976)
3 - Sabine (1977)
4 - The Night Lords (Feb-1980)
5 - Castang's City (Sep-1981)
6 - Wolfnight (May-1983)
7 - The Back of the North Wind (Nov-1983)
8 - No Part in Your Death (Dec-1984)
9 - A City Solitary (Jun-1985)
10 - Cold Iron (Nov-1986)
11 - Lady Macbeth (1988)
12 - Not As Far As Velma (Jun-1989)
13 - Those in Peril (1990)
14 - The Flanders Sky (Sep-1992)
15 - You Know Who (1993)
16 - The Seacoast of Bohemia (Jun-1995)
17 - A Dwarf Kingdom (Jul-1996)
Inspector Van Der Valk
1 - Love in Amsterdam (1962)2 - Because of the Cats (1963)
3 - Gun Before Butter (1963)
4 - Double Barrel (1964)
5 - Criminal Conversation (1965)
6 - The King of the Rainy Country (1966)
7 - The Dresden Green (1966)
8 - Strike Out Where Not Applicable (1967)
9 - Tsing-Boum (1969)
10 - The Lovely Ladies (1971)
11 - Aupres de ma Blonde (1972)
12 - The Widow (1979)
13 - One Damn Thing After Another // Arlette (1981)
14 - Sand Castles (1989)
15 - A Long Silence (Nov-2011)
Book List in Order: 46 titles
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Love in Amsterdam
- 1962
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A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman. It looks like a straightforward case -- but police inspector Van...
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Because of the Cats
- 1963
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A shocking case of robbery and rape thrusts Inspector Van der Valk into the center of a sinister teenage gang. Bloemendaal aan Zee is a pleasant town of modern buildings, high incomes, happy families, and little crime. So when teenage vandalism su...
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Gun Before Butter
- 1963
- / Police Procedural
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A Van der Valk Thriller—Winner of the Crime Writer''s Award and the Grand Prix de Roman Policier.
Police Inspector Piet Van der Valk becomes involved in an extraordinary case when he crosses the path of a pretty daughter of a famous d...
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Double Barrel
- 1964
- / Law Enforcement
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They told Inspector Van der Valk to pose as a bureaucrat, go to the dreariest town in Northern Holland and forget he was a policeman. They wanted him and his wife to become small-town eavesdroppers like everybody else. Just to find out who was writin...
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Question of Loyalty
- 1964
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The patient, hunch-playing policeman Van der Valk struggles with a corpse which has no identity and then too many.... A first-rate story of crime and detection, says the New York Times. "Subtly powerful" "Freeling is the best. The Londoner is as good...
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Criminal Conversation
- 1965
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Van der Valk is on the case again as a mysterious letter is unearthed alluding to the murder of a man named Cabestan. In the letter, the murderer is named but van der Valk must find out first who this mysterious letter-writer is. What transpires i...
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The Dresden Green
- 1966
- / Law Enforcement
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The placid freedom from whiling away the hours on holiday seems like a dream. But there's no rest for the wicked. At least, not where Louis Schweitzer is concerned. After a day in the countryside, Schweitzer is back home, having murdered two victims ...
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The King of the Rainy Country
- 1966
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This was the end of the story that had started ""Once upon a time, in a rainy country, there was a king...."" The end had not happened in a rainy country, but on a bone-dry Spanish hillside, 300 metres from where Van der Valk had left a lot of bl...
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Strike Out Where Not Applicable
- 1967
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Van der Valk finds small-town life a bore -- until the "accidental death" of the local innkeeper proves not accidental at all! The White Horse, a convivial inn run by an extraordinarily handsome man and his very attractive wife, is the social cent...
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Tsing-Boum
- 1969
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Esther Marx, wife of a dull Dutch sergeant, is machine-gunned to death in her dreary apartment, and the trail leads back to events in Vietnam, in Dien Bien Phu , in 1954. A Freeling classic....
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The Lovely Ladies
- 1971
- / Law Enforcement
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What''s the connection between an elderly businessman who''s been stabbed to death on the streets of Amsterdam and three lovely Dutch expatriates living as housewives in Dublin? That''s the central question of The Lovely Ladies and it''s one that ...
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Over the High Side
- Dec-1973
- / General Fiction
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Nicolas Freeling introduces a subtle and highly complex character in the shape of police detective Piet Van der Valk in this thriller, triggered by a street stabbing with a difference. Freeling gives an astute, imaginative breakdown of the world of v...
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A Dressing of Diamond
- 1974
- / Law Enforcement
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For Colette Delavigne, one of France's youngest judges, life takes a terrifying twist when she returns from work one night to find her daughter has been abducted. Henri Castang is sought out to investigate her vanishing and Delavigne's profession ...
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The Bugles Blowing
- 1976
- / Law Enforcement
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A European city, bathed in the sultry heat of a summer afternoon and a telephone call announcing a triple murder. Henri Castang is called into action in this profound and disturbing crime fiction. To protect himself, he must play by the rules but i...
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The Night Lords
- Feb-1980
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A British judge and a naked corpse put French inspector Henri Castang on delicate, dangerous ground in this mystery from the Edgar Award"winning author.When a local businessman’s car is stolen, he’s more concerned about what’s inside -- the b...
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One Damn Thing After Another // Arlette
- 1981
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Since setting up shop in Strasbourg with her new husband, Arlette, widow to the notorious Van der Valk, has garnered something of a name for herself. Getting shot at, kidnapped and blackmailed seem to have simply become a part of daily life. Being ta...
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Castang's City
- Sep-1981
- / Law Enforcement
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A French detective looks into a public figure’s murder -- and discovers some private secrets -- in a mystery by an author who is “a joy to read” (TheTimes Literary Supplement). When a local official is gunned down in the street, it looks like a...
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Valparaiso
- Jun-1982
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The peaceful bay of Porquerolles looks out over the waters to Toulon and to Kapitan, an extraordinary drifter who lives for his beloved boat, Olivia, bobbing among the bustling blue of the shores. Kapitan is an enigma; a man who has sailed the Medite...
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The Back of the North Wind
- Nov-1983
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Murder, cannibalism, political skulduggery -- it’s all in a week's work for Inspector Henri Castang. Henri Castang, a thirty-year veteran of the French National Police, returns from vacation to find some dirty and dangerous business awaiting him...
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No Part in Your Death
- Dec-1984
- / Law Enforcement
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From an Edgar award winner, French Inspector Castang investigates cases close to his personal life in a mystery rich with “penetrating character sketches” (Kirkus Reviews).It seems there’s no escape from crime for Police Commissaire Henri Casta...
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A City Solitary
- Jun-1985
- / Law Enforcement
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Three mocking, self-confident punks have vandalized the Forrestiers' home. The actual damage is minimal, but Walter Forrestier's brush with crime, and with the criminal justice system, begins to corrupt all the values he holds sacred. Forced into act...
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Lady Macbeth
- 1988
- / Law Enforcement
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Renowned French Detective Castang investigates a missing wife and her suspicious husband in this mystery from an Edgar award"winning British crime writer.Guy and Sibille Lebfevre had what most people would call a normal marriage -- until they have ...
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Sand Castles
- 1989
- / Law Enforcement
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Inspector Piet van der Valk of the Amsterdam police was one of the best-loved detectives of modern crime fiction -- before his creator murdered him in a 1972 novel. Now Nicolas Freeling brings van der Valk back -- in a brilliant adventure that takes ...
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Not As Far As Velma
- Jun-1989
- / Law Enforcement
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“That artful master of the international policier . . . delivers another one of his uncommonly intelligent procedurals with Inspector Henri Castang.” -- The New York TimesWhen Police Commissaire Henri Castang is summoned to invest...
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Those in Peril
- 1990
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Due to complaints of his handling of an earlier case, Inspector Henri Castang is transferred to Paris and a little-known backwater of the Police Judiciaire: the Fraud Repression unit of the Fine Arts division. There he is to twiddle his thumbs until ...
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The Flanders Sky
- Sep-1992
- / Police Procedural
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The Berlin Wall is falling. Eastern Europe is in turmoil. Amid the tumult, Inspector Henri Castang has been exiled to a bureaucratic post in Bruxelles, a city in the eye of the storm. But the forces of violence are at work even here. When a colleague...
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You Know Who
- 1993
- / Police Procedural
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An Irish diplomat is dead of a shotgun blast. Henri Castang, a French detective in exile, is obsessed with his friend's death, and with his friend's lover. From the land of Joyce and Yeats to the Italian Alps, Castang follows his obsession through a ...
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The Seacoast of Bohemia
- Jun-1995
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From an Edgar award"winning crime author, a mystery featuring unorthodox detective Henri Castang as he hunts for a kidnapper in the Czech Republic.It’s every mother’s nightmare -- their child abducted. But for Anita Rogier, whose son has been m...
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A Dwarf Kingdom
- Jul-1996
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The final Henri Castang mystery confirms the Edgar award"winning author’s “mastery of character and imagery in a superlative study of people and power (Publishers Weekly, starred review).After the murder of dear friends and an attack on his wif...
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One More River
- Mar-1998
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From an Edgar award"winning author, a crime novel about an English ex-pat on the run from danger is “a wondrous, strange trip through a very fine mind” (The New York Times).From the critically acclaimed author of the Van der Valk and the Henri ...
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At the Back of the North Wind
- Jan-2001
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A Henri Castang Mystery - The grisly murder of a young woman, cannibalism and political scandal rear their ugly heads in this Henri Castang mystery. And there are connections with the killings of two ordinary citizens, and a beautiful, antagonistic p...
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You Who Know
- Jan-2001
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“An acknowledged master . . . writes with heart and unfailing intelligence” in this meditative Inspector Castang mystery about sexual obsession and love (Publishers Weekly).When Inspector Henri Castang is asked to investigate the d...
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The Janeites
- Sep-2002
- / Suspense
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This is a tale of love and of death in the cynical political worlds of Strasbourg and Paris ... Where the works of Jane Austen act as a relief to the spread of cancer. As we find out, there's "no one like Jane in a tight place."...
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The Pretty How Town
- Oct-2003
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Henri Castang, "promoted" from Paris to Brussels, discovers that the villains of bureaucracy are as devious as those of the streets. Until his boss is arrested for murder, a child abuser becomes a crime statistic and Europe redefines its boundaries, ...
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A Long Silence
- Nov-2011
- / General Fiction
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It was not a very important case. No crime had been committed. For Van der Valk the shady dealings of a prosperous Amsterdam jeweler were more of a private puzzle.
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What Are the Bugles Blowing For?
- Sep-2016
- / Mystery
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A European city, bathed in the sultry heat of a summer afternoon, and a telephone call announcing a triple murder. Henri Castang is called into action in this profound and disturbing detective story. To protect himself, he must play by the rules ...
Award-Winning Books by Nicolas Freeling
1967 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel