Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106598 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 218 pages

Synopsis
Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier investigate the murder of nightclub owner-turned-businesswoman Elaine Carnet, studying the possible motives of her daughter, her business partner, a young salesman, and her former sales manager and lover.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Amsterdam detectives
This is the 6th in a series of excellent police detective stories by van de Wetering, himself an ex-policeman. In the series, this comes after 'the Japanese corpse' and before 'the Maine massacre', and it was written in 1978. Plot synopsis: during a violent storm in Amsterdam, a middle-aged lady is found with a broken neck at the bottom of her garden stairs. Accident or murder? A poisoned dog and a two-faced cat are some of the early clues that Grijpstra, de Gier, the commissaris and Cardozo have to solve.

These are good police stories, with a well-described atmosphere of Amsterdam, of police interaction, of real people with foibles and complicated personalities. There is a multi-layered case to work out, the policemen are likeable (most of the time) and human, and there is a touch of Zen, too.

If you don't know the series, give it a try - you have quite some pleasure awaiting you. If you know some of these books, this is a good part of the fairly early series. De Gier's cat is still Tabriz, who crashes marmelade jars in the kitchen of his flat...