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 Dekok and Murder by Melody - Albert C. Baantjer
 Dekok and Murder by Melody - Albert C. Baantjer ... triple murder in the Amsterdam Concert Gebouw and must call upon his extensive expertise to solve the case. Death, observes DeKok, is entitled to our respect. Especially when it manifests itself in a violent manner. The phenomenon of sudden death has long intrigued Inspector DeKok. From the moment he confronted his first corpse, at the beginning of a very long career, he knew it was never going to get any easier. For DeKok, death will always remain an enigma. Mustering his decorated experience and reverence for the dead once more, a triple murder in the Amsterdam Concert Gebouw has DeKok unveiling the truth behind two dead ex-junkies and their housekeeper. This is the second new release by Speck Press in the celebrated Baantjer series.Newest Review: ... The author, A C Baantjer, was a homicide detective in the Netherlands for 25 years and has based many of his books on actual ... more ... cases. This particular book is apparently based on a true case that happened in the early part of the twentieth century. I was actually quite surprised to read this, because the plots I've read so far by this author have not seemed all that believable. At the same time, there is a touch of earthiness in the way that the two detectives go about solving the case and this adds reality to the story.
There have been so many detectives in crime fiction that it is hard to find one that is original these days. DeKok (known ...more |
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Dekok and Murder by Melody - Albert C. Baantjer: A melodious murder? (721 words)
by - written on 22/05/07 (Very useful, 114 readings)
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Two young men are found murdered; one in his boarding house, the other on the street. Both have been strangled and after some initial investigation, the police find out that they were close friends with two things in common - both are ex-drug users and both love music. The initial suspicion that the murders were drug-related is soon set aside, particularly when the manager of the boarding house is also murdered. There is no shortage of suspects, including the brother of one of the murdered young men, blamed by his mother for introducing his brother to drugs. Inspector DeKok and his colleague, Inspector Vledder, are soon hot on the trail of the various ... Read the complete review
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