The Japanese Corpse by Janwillem van de Wetering

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The Japanese Corpse

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Author: Janwillem van de Wetering
ISBN: 9781569470572

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Published on Apr 01, 2003 | 352 Pages

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The fifth Amsterdam Cops mystery

A beautiful waitress at Amsterdam’s most elegant Japanese restaurant reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police search throughout the Netherlands and finally locate a corpse. But to find the killer, the commissaris and de Gier must travel to Japan and match wits with a yakuza chieftain in his lair.

Praise for The Japanese Corpse

“[Van de Wetering] has a genuine gift for characterization . . . The villains are the yakuza, Japan’s Mafia, who of course have their own extralegal culture with its warriors, taboos, codes, and pretty girls. The author obviously knows the methods of his florid villains very well.”
—TIME

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

“The ending is slambang!”
—Library Journal

Author

Janwillem van de Wetering

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.

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