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The Japanese Corpse (Soho crime) (original 1977; edition 1999)

by Janwillem Van De Wetering

Series: Amsterdam Cops (5)

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A beautiful Eurasian waitress employed 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 Geir must go to Japan and match wits with a yakuza chieftain in his lair. This is the fifth novel in the Amsterdam Cops series.… (more)
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Title:The Japanese Corpse (Soho crime)
Authors:Janwillem Van De Wetering
Info:SohoCrime,US (1999), Edition: New edition, Paperback, 291 pages
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The strangest entry so far in a very strange detective series. No real mystery, but an off-kilter Zen sensibility permeates the plot, which I found to be more an emotional story than simply a crime to be solved. Van de Wetering is unique.
  picklefactory | Jan 16, 2018 |
This is the second book by this author that I've read and I've decided I do not like this author. He/she is very choppy and short with their chapters and thoughts. The book ended just out of nowhere with no real conclusion. I won't be reading them again. I'm glad I got them at the thrift store. ( )
  faerychikk | Jan 5, 2016 |
This is the second book by this author that I've read and I've decided I do not like this author. He/she is very choppy and short with their chapters and thoughts. The book ended just out of nowhere with no real conclusion. I won't be reading them again. I'm glad I got them at the thrift store. ( )
  faerychikk | Jan 5, 2016 |
A yakuza art dealer goes missing in Amsterdam. The detectives must travel to Japan to find out the mystery. Very good book, but strangely dated. ( )
  stuart10er | Sep 27, 2013 |
I've come to like Van de Wetering for the zen-like quality of his books, not the mystery per se. I thought the depiction of Japan and the way zen infuses the lives of the various characters, both practitioners and not, was very good. ( )
  aulsmith | Dec 25, 2009 |
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Canonical title
The Japanese Corpse
Original title
Een Dode uit het Oosten
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1977
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Johan Termmer
Rinus de Gier (Sergeant)
Henk Grijpstra (Adjutant)
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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Tokyo, Honshū, Japan
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"Und sie meinen, es sei etwas passiert ...", sagte Brigadier de Gier zögernd, wobei er das Wort "passiert" betonte.
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A beautiful Eurasian waitress employed 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 Geir must go to Japan and match wits with a yakuza chieftain in his lair. This is the fifth novel in the Amsterdam Cops series.
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813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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PS3572.A4292Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Individual authors › 1961-

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