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Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569478309
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?
Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569470758
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
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569470189
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 : Soho Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 156947057X
The fifth Amsterdam Cops mystery A beautiful waitress at Amsterdam’s most elegant Japanese restaurant reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police search throughout the Netherlands and finally locate a corpse. But to find the killer, the commissaris and de Gier must travel to Japan and match wits with a yakuza chieftain in his lair.
Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569470642
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 : Peter Lovesey
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164129163X
The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England. Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited by Lady Amelia, a recently widowed young woman, to Desborough Hall for a week-long shooting party. The eleven other motley guests include a poet, a chaplain, and an Amazon explorer. The party promises a week of shooting, socializing, and feasting, but these expectations are soon shattered as one of the guests collapses face first into her dessert and dies before the night is out. At first, this death is believed to be an accident, and the party continues with their hunting plans for the week. But when another guest turns up dead the very next day, Bertie realizes that the deaths cannot be coincidence.
Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569471037
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
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1569478236
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.
Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 156947821X
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 : Gary J. Hausladen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292779364
From Tony Hillerman's Navajo Southwest to Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow, an exotic, vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. Indeed, the sense of place, no less than the compelling character of the detective, is often what keeps authors writing and readers reading a particular series of mystery novels. This book investigates how "police procedural" murder mysteries have been used to convey a sense of place. Gary Hausladen delves into the work of more than thirty authors, including Tony Hillerman, Martin Cruz Smith, James Lee Burke, David Lindsey, P. D. James, and many others. Arranging the authors by their region of choice, he discusses police procedurals set in America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Europe, Moscow, Asia, and selected locales in other parts of the world, as well as in historical places ranging from the Roman Empire to turn-of-the-century Cairo.