The Blond Baboon - Softcover

Van De Wetering, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345344979 ISBN 13: 9780345344977

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1987

Synopsis

Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier investigate the murder of nightclub owner turned businesswoman Elaine Carnet, studying the possible motives of her daughter, her business partner, a young salesman, and her former sales manager and lover

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, and eleven other books in the Grijpstra and de Gier series.

Review:

Praise for Janwillem van de Wetering

“Masterly Zen mysteries.”
—The New York Times Book Review

"[Van de Wetering] is doing what Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull."
—John Leonard

"A superb storyteller."
—Chicago Tribune

“What atmosphere! Elegant! Satisfying!”
—Baltimore Sun

"What makes this series so engaging is that the policemen are as quirky and complicated as the criminals."
—The Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0345344979
• ISBN 13: 9780345344977
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 224