Death of a Hawker: 4 (Amsterdam Cops) - Softcover

Van De Wetering, Janwillem

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569470790 ISBN 13: 9781569470794

Publisher: SohoCrime,US, 2003

Synopsis

A riot has erupted in New Market Square, transforming the normally sedate streets of Amsterdam into a mass of angry protesters. So when the body of the “King” of the local street market is found in his house with his head bashed in, the police are puzzled. The adjoining street has been closed off all day, and the constables stationed outside the scene of the crime didn’t detect any unusual activity. There are only two people who could have reasonably committed the violent act: the victim’s roommate upstairs and his beautiful sister downstairs. Both claim to have seen or heard nothing suspicious when the crime took place. But something isn’t adding up. Is one of them the killer?

About this title

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, The Corpse on the Dike, The Japanese Corpse, The Maine Massacre, which garnered him the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and ten other books in the Amsterdam Cops series.

Synopsis:

Amsterdam is normally sedate but today there is a riot in Newmarket Square. Constables have blocked access to the adjoining Straight Tree Ditch Road all day. When the body of the 'King' of the local street market is found murdered in a room in his house on that street, there are only two suspects: his sister or the upstairs border. But who was it?

About this edition

• Publisher: SohoCrime,US
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1569470790
• ISBN 13: 9781569470794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240