The Sergeant's Cat (Amsterdam Cops), by Janwillem Van De Wetering
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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 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.
The Sergeant's Cat (Amsterdam Cops), by Janwillem Van De Wetering- Amazon Sales Rank: #2494727 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Released on: 2015-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.40" h x .60" w x 5.00" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
From Publishers Weekly Eight of the stories in this collection feature the author's imperturbable and popular characters, Amsterdam policemen Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier. Dealing with thuggish drug dealers, erudite academicians and everyday businessmen, the homicide detectives perform at their cognitive best, sometimes as gloomy as a cloudy day, sometimes sunnily good-humored. Many of these stories, including the smoothly chilling "There Goes Ravelaar" and the lighthearted "Houseful of Mussels," about an oceanographer who, hoping to make a fortune growing mussels, didn't pay enough attention to his love-life, have already appeared in Ellery Queen's Magazine. Six more stories have different settings and characters: two in lands of the East, recalling van de Wetering's interest in Zen Buddhism; two in the Netherlands; one featuring the willing victim of a beautiful vampire; and two, one a dire science fiction tale, set in Maine, where the author now lives. These are vintage van de Wetering storiesdry and wise, pared of all sentiment and unfailingly entertaining. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review Praise for Janwillem van de Wetering"Masterly Zen mysteries."—The New York Times Book Review“Before he’s done, van de Wetering will have his say on ghettos, pornography, capitalism, est, Gurdjieff, and zero . . . The first modernist detective. To row on his dream canal, to be followed by his symbolic turtle, is to be more than disconcerted; it is to be ambushed.” —Vanity Fair“Engaging . . . The policemen are as quirky and complicated as the criminals.” —The Washington Post“What Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull.”—John Leonard
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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. VAN DE WETERING'S COLLECTION OF 14 SHORT STORIES DESERVES AN "A" RATING By David R. Eastwood THE SERGEANT'S CAT AND OTHER STORIES (1987) by Janwillem van de Wetering (Dutch, 1931-2008) contains 14 short stories, 8 of them Police Procedural mysteries set in Amsterdam, featuring his series detectives Adjutant Grujpstra and Sergeant de Gier. There are no Fair-Play Puzzle mysteries, and 6 of the stories are set elsewhere and generally deal with very different subjects. Most of these 14 stories are very good, and several of them are excellent.Following the sequence of the Table of Contents, the stories are "There Goes Ravelaar" (first published in ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, Jan. 1985), "Six This, Six That" (EQMM, July 1985), "The Deadly Egg" (EQMM, Mar. 1979), "Sure, Blue, and Dead, Too" (EQMM, June 1983), "The Sergeant's Cat" (EQMM Aug. 1983), "The Machine Gun and the Mannequin" (EQMM, July 15, 1982), "Houseful of Mussels" (EQMM, Apr. 1985), "Letter Present" (EQMM, Feb. 1986), "A Tasty Tidbit" (EQMM, Apr. 1984), "A Great Sight" (mystery anthol. TOP CRIME, 1983), "A Tale with an End" (1987), "Jacob Sanders' Final Solution" (1987), "The Yoga Yo-Yo" (1987), and "The New Disciple" (PARABOLA MAGAZINE, Summer 1984).In my judgement the best 4 stories are "Six This, Six That," "The Machine Gun and the Mannequin," "Houseful of Mussels" (all three featuring cases of Grijpstra and de Gier), and "The New Disciple" (a story with Zen implications, set in Japan; not incidentally, Janwillem van de Wetering, as a young man, studied Zen in Japan and wrote 2 very interesting books about his experiences during that period).Two stories I judged to be somewhat weak are "There Goes Ravelaar" (where Grijpstra and de Gier seem to fail) and "A Tale with an End" (a dystopian science fiction story warning us to take better care of our planet). The fantasy-horror story "Jacob Sanders' Final Solution" (written as the final diary entry of a doomed genius--a young Jewish Dutch boy at the start of World War II--telling about his relationship with a female vampire) was not to my taste.If I were giving this collection of stories a letter grade, it would be a strong "A".
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Amsterdam Cop Rules By Dr. Poo These short stories set in Holland and Maine give a unique view into the "Dutch" perspective toward policing and government in general. Janwillem's deft style and his characters introspective personalities make the reader long to be in the wicked city of Amsterdam.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Jenever, coffee, jazz and murder. By Bruce A. Heiman Reprinted Amsterdam Cops. Bought it twice oops. Still reread it. It's that good. Read the novels too. But these are the best.
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