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A.C. Baantjer
Books in Order: 39 titles
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Dekok and the Corpse by Return
Inspector DeKok awakens one morning to a call from a local radio personality. The caller alerts him that he has been selected by one of their listeners as the famous Dutchman they would like most to meet. DeKok and eighteen-year-old Sandra Verloop...
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Dekok and the Dead Lovers
Inspector DeKok and his partner Vledder are ordered to protect the eccentric Manfred Nettelhorst's art treasures, exhibited during a special showing in Amsterdam. But before the exhibition has come to a close, the two detectives are called away t...
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Dekok and the Somber Nude
A beautiful, free-spirited young woman has gone missing, and those closest to her fear for her life. Inspector DeKok is soon called upon to find out her whereabouts. It quickly becomes clear that this Nanette may have harbored a dark side, one that e...
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DeKok and Variations on Murder
As has been her habit since the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Haesbergen does nightly rounds in the large office building where she resides. Her husband had been the building superintendent, and an apartment on the top floor came with the job.
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DeKok and the Geese of Death
DeKok takes on Igor Stablinsky, a man accused of bludgeoning a wealthy old man and his wife. To DeKok's unfailing eye the killing urge is visibly present in the suspect during questioning, but did he commit this particular crime?
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DeKok and the Death of a Clown
Without the slightest trace, an antique jewel collection disappears from a house along one of the great canals in Amsterdam. Inspector DeKok feels compelled to help the victim of the theft, unknowingly signing up for a homicide case, as well.
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DeKok and Murder on Blood Mountain
At the request of the Belgian police, Inspectors DeKok and Vledder attend the funeral of a murder victim. The body was fished out of Antwerp's Scheldt River, but brought back to Amsterdam to be laid to rest there. During the service DeKok spies t...
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DeKok and the Mask of Death
Women are checking in to Slotervaart Hospital, but not checking out. According to hospital files, they were never even there. Inspectors DeKok and Vledder are called upon to investigate this alarming disappearing act.
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DeKok and the Begging Death
Verbruggen, a wealthy banker, has been receiving letters that hint at the kidnapping of his only grandchild. The mystery unfolds in old Wester Church during the child's baptism. Verbruggen has arranged for DeKok to be one of the spectators. After the...
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DeKok and Murder in Ecstacy
A bestselling mystery writer in his native Netherlands, Baantjer remains relatively and undeservedly unknown in the U.S., although this is the 17th (out of more than 40) DeKok mystery published here. Detective Inspector Jurriaan DeKok of the Amsterda...
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DeKok and Murder by Installment
Although at first it seemed to be a case for the narcotics division, this latest crime soon evolves into a series of sinister murders, which seem almost impossible to solve. Never before have inspectors DeKok and Vledder been so involved in a case wh...
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DeKok and Murder by Melody
Inspector DeKok finds himself in the midst of outwardly disparate motives and personalities surrounding the deaths of two reformed junkies and their landlady, a former prostitute. However, there is one connection in the madness, because music threads...
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DeKok and Murder in Seance
During the weekly seance in the house of blind Jennifer Jordan, an excellent medium, one of the female visitors falls off her chair. Dead. Jennifer had felt the tension around her, the vibrations of lusts and strong emotions. Something was happening ...
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DeKok and the Naked Lady
Detective-Inspector DeKok's latest case begins with the delivery of a death announcement for Frederik Johannes Dinterloo with a message on the back: ``to meet the next victim, . . . attend the funeral.'' DeKok and his partner, Dick Vledder, note noth...
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DeKok and the Dead Harlequin
Inspector DeKok is faced with a grotesque double murder in a well-known Amsterdam hotel. He finds the murder victims looking like macabre wooden harlequins. Inspector DeKok must unravel clues from two unexpected characters: a six-year-old girl who ha...
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DeKok and the Disillusioned Corpse
DeKok watched, flanked by his assistant Vledder, as two men from the coroner's office fished a corpse from the waters of the Brewers Canal. The deceased was a young man with a sympathetic face. Vledder looked on and then remarked: "I don't know, but ...
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DeKok and the Sorrowing Tomcat
Albert Cornelis Baantjer is the Netherland's most widely read author and his hero DeKok is adored and highly praised. The cases DeKok faces are so real that sometimes he and his creator are thought to be the same person since Baantjer worked as a hom...
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DeKok and Murder on the Menu
On an old menu from the Amsterdam Hotel-Restaurant De Poort van Eden (Eden's Gate) is found the complete, signed confession of a murder. The perpetrator confesses to the killing of a named blackmailer. DeKok and Vledder follow the trail of the menu a...
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