The Sergeant's Cat

Janwillem van de Wetering

ISBN: 9781616956981

Published: September, 1999

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Paperback $15.95

Janwillem van de Wetering

Rotterdam

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A collection of 13 short stories spanning two decades in the lives of van de Wetering's Amsterdam Cops

Amsterdam isn’t exactly a hotbed of violent crime, but wrongdoing does occur, and the most bizarre cases tend to be passed to Grijpstra and de Gier. In one they investigate the death of a handsome oceanographer who...

A collection of 13 short stories spanning two decades in the lives of van de Wetering’s Amsterdam Cops

Amsterdam isn’t exactly a hotbed of violent crime, but wrongdoing does occur, and the most bizarre cases tend to be passed to Grijpstra and de Gier. In one they investigate the death of a handsome oceanographer whose corpse is found amidst his tanks of shiny living mussels. In another they strong-arm a brutal crime lord whose henchman threatens the sergeant’s cat. Yet another leads them to uncover a most unusual murder weapon: a chocolate Easter bunny.

With the curious blend of wit and the macabre readers have come to expect from the pen of Janwillem van de Wetering, the Amsterdam Cops have a way of seeing to it that justice, ultimately, is done.

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“Two rambling detectives prowl the dark streets and dark side of human nature... in a series of first class crime stories.”
—Bookman News
“Mr. Van de Wetering's policemen are just as likely to ... marvel at human nature as to shoot it down.
—The New York Times
“A superb storyteller.
—Chicago Tribune
“A superlative mystery writer.
—Time
“What makes this series so engaging is that the policemen are as quirky and complicated as the criminals.
—The Washington Post