Outsider in Amsterdam

Janwillem van de Wetering

eBook - 2003

"[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 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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Published
Soho Press
Language
English
Main Author
Janwillem van de Wetering
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB003I83ET0
Release Date7/1/2003
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781569478257
Release Date7/1/2003