Gripping graphic novel recounts the murder of a notorious oil tycoon and a private eye's investigations of a rogues' gallery of suspects, from crusty Maine natives to a retired movie star. Suggested for mature readers.
The fourteenth Amsterdam Cops MysteryRetired policemen Grijpstra and de Gier are being blackmailed. The threat is a serious to set the income tax authority on them. The blackmailers, a wealthy yacht owner and his son, want them to investigate the mysterious hijacking of a supertanker’s entire cargo in the Caribbean. The Amsterdam cops reluctantly agree to take the case. Their rendezvous is in Key West, where they are confronted with a murder.
Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student—later a widely celebrated mystery writer—who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, has written, The Empty Mirror "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers." It is the first book in a trilogy that continues with A Glimpse of Nothingness and Afterzen.
Amsterdam detectives De Gier and Grijpstra, investigating an apparently unmotivated murder, come to slippery grips with a stealthy hijacker and a sinister Arab crime-syndicate head
Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier uncover evidence of sorcery as they investigate the murder of a high-class prostitute who lived in a canal houseboat
The philosophical Detective Adjutant Grijpstra and his assistant, Sergeant de Gier, appear in eight of these superb mystery stories. In one they learn which of two lady friends put a bullet through the head of a handsome oceanographer found dead amidst his tanks of shiny, living mussels. In another they strong-arm a brutal crime-lord whose henchman threatens the sergeant's cat. Another finds them wondering how a man could explode a wife-killing bomb in the country while he was, all the time, in his city office. Still another leads them to a murderer whose weapon is a chocolate Easter bunny. And that's just the beginning: the collection contains six other stories, each touched with that curious blend of wit and the macabre which readers have come to expect from the pen of Janwillem van de Wetering.
A young American woman is found stabbed in a temple. A boy who sells noodle soup is accused of drug dealing. An old man who never drinks becomes so drunk he dies in his burning house. These cases are handed to Inspector Saito Masanobu, renowned as the most clever detective on the Kyoto police force. But no one can guess the secret of his success: Parallel Cases Under the Pear Tree, an ancient book devised by Chinese magistrates a thousand years ago. With it, Saito can solve the most baffling cases. For even in the holy city, death and danger lurk around every corner....
What appears to be the welcome murder of a local, much-disliked pimp turns out to be much larger than that single crime as the Dutch authorities struggle to get to the bottom of the shocking truth.
Amsterdam's aging police commissioner comes to the Maine coast to comfort his recently widowed sister. When he arrives, he finds that his brother-in-law is the latest victim of a series of suspicious "accidents." The suspects include a street gang, a psychotic Vietnam vetran, and a blustering real estate agent.
