The Rattle-Rat (Grijpstra and de Gier Series #10)

by Janwillem van de Wetering

Overview

Douwe Scherjoen was a well-to-do livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland. Then his corpse was found, half-charred by flames, floating in a dory in Amsterdam's harbor. No one knows why he was in the nation's capital, far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum. But since Grijpstra is Friesan by birth and can understand the dialect, he and his partner de Gier are dispatched to find the killer--or 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780394547107
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/1985
Series:	Grijpstra and de Gier Series , #10
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

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.