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The novelist Nicolas Freeling, who has died aged 76, was best known for his Van der Valk detective stories and the two television series they inspired.
He was the most thoroughly European of British crime writers. In addition to the Amsterdam detective Piet Van der Valk, whom he rashly killed off in 1972, he created a series of novels based on the more reflective provincial French Inspector Henri Castang. He also wrote exceptional, often underrated, single novels, again set in Europe. He published 37 works of fiction in all, and four miscellaneous works.
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Book Description Book Club Edition. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 189 pages. Description: Dust jacket design by Marjory Dressler. Inspector Van der Volk's investigation of a stabbing in Amsterdam leads him to Dublin and the three lovely ladies of Belgrave Square. Rear gutter code ''B29'' indicates a printing date of July, 1971. BINDING/CONDITION: dark green boards; the upper corners are bumped, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket. ISBN: 0-06-011349-9. Seller Inventory # 061296
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Book Description hardcover. New York. 1971. April 1971. Harper & Row. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0060113499. 250 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Marjory Dressler. keywords: Mystery England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The elderly man was killed in the market place in Amsterdam, just as Inspector Van der Valk was going past. It was assumed, at first, that he'd been run over, but Van der Valk found the handle of an antique dagger emerging from the man's old-fashioned waistcoat and said to the crowd, This is a death by violence; you may have witnessed an assassination. Directly you have given your names to the officers, you may go home. Please be at home tonight: an officer will call to interview you.' The dead man was identified as F.-X. Martinez. Van der Valk went to see Mrs. Martinez. She was younger than her husband, much younger. She called her husband Vader - father. But it was Martinez's real daughters - the girls - that Van der Valk had to see. Lotte he didn't see, she lived in Venezuela, but the others - Agnes, Agatha, Anastasia, the ladies of Belgrave Square, Dublin - they were the ones he saw. Because, in part, of Senator Terence Lynch - Irish and a most prominent figure - Van der Valk was told to proceed to Dublin. You speak English, I suppose'?' he was asked. I can just barely make myself understood,' he said. That's all that's needed,' he was told. And if was all, or almost all that was needed. This is a fascinating story by Nicolas Freeling, who knows Dublin well and whose knowledge of it and the Irish adds a whole magic flavor to this novel. inventory #3547 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z3547