The Corpse on the Dike Paperback by Janwillem van de Wetering

Product Details

• Publisher: Soho Crime (2003-07-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 242 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781569470497
• Item Weight: 272.16 grams
• Dimensions: 19.0 x 12.65 x 1.52 cm

A recluse has been shot right between the eyes while standing at his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher and pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to report it. Is she guilty of murder? Grijpstra and de Gier will travel to whorehouses, through a shady electronics market and into the house of a very flashy potential suspect to find out.

About the Author

Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008) was born and raised in Rotterdam, but lived most recently in Surry, Maine. He served as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary and was once a Zen Buddhist monk. He is renowned for his detective fiction, including Outsider in Amsterdam, Death of a Hawker, The Japanese Corpse, The Maine Massacre, which garnered him the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and ten other books in the Amsterdam Cops series.