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Synopsis
A teenage gang from outwith Amsterdam leave a trail of damage each time they turn up. Their calling card is a grafito that reads the Cats won't like it. As Detective Van der Valk probes the case unravels, but not without a final, violent explosion.
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"Van der Valk remains the most subtle, complex and interesting of fictional detectives." - Sunday Times"I am delighted to find Because of the Cats - one of my favourites - in print again." P.D. James
About the Author
Nicolas Freeeling was born in London in 1927. After serving in the military and working as a hotel and restaurant cook throughout Europe, Mr. Freeling began his first novel, Love in Amsterdam, while serving a sentence of three weeks in jail for stealing food. Mr. Freeling's novel King of the Rainy Country received the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Among his other literary awards are the Gold Dagger from the British Crime Writers Association, and France's Grand Prix de Roman Policier.
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0575035269
- ISBN 13 9780575035263
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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Because of the Cats
Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Later UK Printing in dust jacket. LIKE NEW. The book is FINE. The dust jacket is price clipped. The second Van der Valk novel. Seller Inventory # ABE-1740425394688
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Because of the Cats
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Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1984
ISBN 10: 0575035269
ISBN 13: 9780575035263
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Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Oliver Hatch (illustrator). Reprint. First published in 1963, this is an early reprint edition of 1984. Ex library with usual stamps and defects. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, ffep torn away, not price clipped (£7.95), no personal inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a reasonable copy for its age and ex library. 190pp. Bloemendaal an Zee, that smugly prosperous little seaside town, has more television sets per capita than anywhere else in Holland. Even its drunks are polite, its houses uniformly tidy and sparkling clean. But there's something very wrong with the kids. The most popular teenagers have formed a gang that is preying, with increasing viciousness, on nearby Amsterdam. Inspector Van der Valk's patch. Van der Valk has no love for chilly, yuppified Bloemendaal. But his curiosity is as voracious as his appetite for good food. And while his colleagues just want the attacks stopped, Van der Valk can't help asking what it is about the town that has turned Bloemendaal's children into monsters. Nicolas Freeling (1927-2003), was a British crime novelist and cookery writer, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels. Quite scarce, even in this later impression. Seller Inventory # 009234
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Because of the Cats
Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0575035269-4
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