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Janwillem van de Weterings fourteenth Amsterdam Cops novel finds Grijpstra de Gier and the commissaris blackmailed into investigating the mysterious hijacking of a supertankers entire cargo The adventure takes them to Key West and to the former Dutch colonies of Aruba and St Eustatius in search of the missing oil and the villains who have killed more than once to protect their loot
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The fourteenth Amsterdam Cops MysteryRetired policemen Grijpstra and de Gier are being blackmailed The threat is a serious one to set the income tax authority on them The blackmailers a wealthy yacht owner and his son want them to investigate the mysterious hijacking of a supertankers entire cargo in the Caribbean The Amsterdam cops reluctantly agree to take the case Their rendezvous is in Key West where they are confronted with a murder
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The accidental death of his brotherinlaw sends the commissaris to the secluded town of Jameson Maine De Gier goes along to see the United States But there has been a sinister pattern of deaths in the area and the two find themselves neckdeep in a murder investigation involving shady real estate deals with a townful of suspects and the icy breath of a coldblooded killer stalking their every move
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Douwe Scherjoen was a welltodo livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland Then his corpse was found halfcharred by flames floating in a dory in Amsterdams harbor No one knows why he was in the nations capital far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum But since Grijpstra is Friesian by birth and can understand the dialect he and his partner de Gier are dispatched to find the killeror at least the motive for the crime And they discover that while no one not even his wife liked the victim the culprit is the unlikeliest suspect of all
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From the twotime Booker Prizewinning author an irrepressible audacious trenchantly funny new novel set in the 19th century and inspired in part by the life of Alexis de TocquevilleWith dazzling exuberance and all the richness of characterization story and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer Peter Carey explores the birth of democracy the limits of friendship and whether people really can remake themselves in a New WorldThe two men at the heart of the novel couldnt be any more different Olivier is the son of French aristocrats who barely survived the French Revolution Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerate English printer But when young Parrot is separated from his father after a stupendous conflagration at a house of forgery he runs into the powerful embrace of a onearmed marquis who will be his conduit like it or not into a life as closely misallied with Oliviers as if they were connected by blood And when Olivier sets sail for America ostensibly to make a study of the American penal system but more precisely to save his neck from the latest guillotineurs Parrot unable to loosen the Marquiss grip is there too as spy scribe comptroller protector foe and foilAs the narrative unfurls shifting between the perspectives of Olivier and Parrot between their picaresque adventures apart and together in love and politics prisons and finance homelands and brave new lands a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold
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Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi attempted in 1816 to make an endrun around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction Lizardis experiment in subterfuge quickly failed Spanish officials shut down publication of the novelthe first to be published in Latin Americaafter the third installment and within four years Lizardi was back in jail The whole of The Mangy Parrot El Periquillo Sarniento went unpublished until after Lizardis deathand a decade after Mexico had won its independence from SpainThough never before published in its entirety in English The Mangy Parrot has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers Now in vibrant American idiom translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardis taletelling as the author follows his narrator and alter ego Periquillo Sarniento through a series of misadventures that exposes the ignorance and corruption plaguing Mexican society on the eve of the wars for independence Raw descriptions of colonial street life candid portraits of race and ethnicity and barely camouflaged attacks on colonial authority fill this comic masterpiece of world literaturethe Don Quixote of Latin America
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Currupaco Papaco is a talkative parrot who grows tired of his perch and wants to see the world but when he goes off on a sea voyage that leads him to a very cold land he decides that world travel might not be for him
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Acclaimed author and feisty nonagenarian Hotchners witty ruminations about the art of living well into old agewith brio and a touch of his trademark sass Hotchner writes about rediscovering love after 75 finding joy in a scrappy African gray parrot he named after his longtime friend Ernest Hemingway and going on his very first safari at age 88 Kirkus ReviewsWhen youngsters in their seventies and eighties nervously lurching toward the horizon of ninety ask me Whats the secret Thats what I tell them OJ in the morning gin and tonic at nightYou dont have to be in your seventies or eighties to enjoy A E Hotchners elixir for aging happily but after reading this charming collection of essays you may wish you were Nonagenarian novelist playwright and biographer Hotchner gives us heartfelt and laughoutloud anecdotes that describe his unique reflections on the aging process His musings cover everything from the outlandish commercials that target the older generation Viagra Cialis and Flomax to suggestions on adapting the tennis game for seniors he suggests lowering the net by two inches and moving all outer lines two feet inward to the advantages of having a pet his pet parrot often tells guests to kiss my assHe can equally capture the headier side of aging which is bittersweetly revealed in his piece about divorce With his disarming eloquent voice and dry sense of humor Hotch illuminates lifes wisdoms through his optimistic witty and romantic outlook all the while making you feel well not unhappy about growing olderOJ in the Morning GampT at Night is a book of courageous advice humorous wisdom and above all good strategies for how to stay young at heart
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Maria van Buren a beautiful highclass prostitute is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder Her tony clients all have sound alibis Before the murderer is caught the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic travel to Curacao and pursue clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland
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Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier uncover evidence of sorcery as they investigate the murder of a highclass prostitute who lived in a canal houseboat
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Breton relations Luc Bannalec Breton salt and perfidious machinations Commissioner Dupins most personal case The spectacular salt gardens on the Guérande peninsula The violet fragrance of Fleur de Sel in the harvest season which the old salt farmers tell he sometimes conjure up fantasies Commissioner Dupin also believes that when he is attacked in the salt pans out of the blue Actually Commissioner Dupin was glad to escape the tiresome paperwork and take a trip to the White Land between roaring Atlantic and idyllic rivers But when he looks around for mysterious barrels for Lilou Breval a friendly journalist he suddenly comes under fire The culprit is undetectable and a little later Breval disappears without a trace It is thanks to his secretary Nolwenn and the ambition of the prefect that Dupin may investigate in this case But not alone because the responsible commissioner of the department is called Rose and lives up to her name Whats going on in the salt gardens Dupin and Rose are feverishly searching for clues and come across false alibis between the picturesque Gulf of Morbihan and the stunning salt pans huge conflicts of interest personal feuds German language Bretonisches Verhaltnisse Luc Bannalec Bretonisches Salz und perfide Machenschaften Kommissar Dupins persönlichster Fall Die spektakulären Salzgärten auf der GuérandeHalbinsel Der Veilchenduft des Fleur de Sel in der Erntezeit von dem die alten Salzbauern erzählen er erzeuge bisweilen Hirngespinste Das glaubt auch Kommissar Dupin als er in den Salinen aus heiterem Himmel angegriffen wird Eigentlich war Kommissar Dupin froh dem leidigen Papierkram zu entkommen und einen Ausflug ins Weiße Land zwischen tosendem Atlantik und idyllischen Flüssen zu unternehmen Doch als er sich dort für Lilou Breval eine befreundete Journalistin nach mysteriösen Fässern umsieht gerät er unversehens unter Beschuss
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Mystery stories featuring Amsterdam detectives Grijpstra amp de Gier
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Maria van Buren a beautiful highclass prostitute is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder Her tony clients all have sound alibis Before the murderer is caught the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic travel to Curaçao and pursue the clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland
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The ninth Amsterdam Cops mysterySergeant de Gier spots a vulture at the scene of a murder in Amsterdams red light district The victim a despicable and widely hated pimp is now only a police matter to be disposed of with typical Dutch tidiness However once Grijpstra de Gier and the canny commissaris get involved their search leads to a denouement infinitely more shocking than the crime itself
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Outsider in Amsterdam sold at 251.93 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Detectives Grijpstra and de Grier middleaged family man and modish bachelor investigate the murder of the owner of a rundown restaurant in Amsterdams old quarter
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Investigating a case involving a murder in an Amsterdam suburb which is apparently the work of the dreaded yakusa a Japanese version of the Mafia Detectives De Gier and Grijpstra are led far afield to the holy city of Kyoto
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Maria van Buren a beautiful highclass prostitute is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder Her tony clients all have sound alibis Before the murderer is caught the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic travel to Curacao and pursue clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland
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A recluse has been shot right between the eyes while standing at his bedroom window His neighbor a schoolteacher and pistol shot champion admits she discovered the body and failed to report it Is she guilty of murder Grijpstra and de Gier will travel to whorehouses through a shady electronics market and into the house of a very flashy potential suspect to find out
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In the midst of the bedlam that erupts in Amsterdam a woman calls upon Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier to find the murderer of her brother a hawker and successful importer
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