Geerten Meijsing is a Dutch writer whose work falls into different categories, written using different author's names. Particularly his early work was written and published by a collective names Joyce & Co. The most important co-author of that collective goes by the single name ""Kanger". Works written by this collective almost all belong to the Erwin-trilogie and some works related to this work. These novels are very erudite in a snobbish way. Other works are written under the author's own name, and it is particularly with these works that he has been fairly successful, although less in recent years. For the past ten years, Geerten Meijsing has moved to Italy, and is financially propped up by a club of fans, who support him by way of crowdfunding. Especially the recent works written in Italy are poorly received.

Under his own name, Geerten Meijsing writes a varied style of novels, often with in an easy style, which either is very intellectual in a sneering way, or pokes fun of supposedly intellectual people.

Dood meisje is such a loosely large novel with a loose structure, and a simple story that mocks an older professor. Essentially, the story is fairly simple, namely an older professor attempts to take care of a prostitute, as their sexual service relationship morphes into a relation that hangs between a fatherly-daughter and lovers'relation. Obviously, since the girl is a sex worker this costs him a lot of money. Besides, he cannot really control the girl, and the latter part of the novel reads like a rescue mission in which he tries to save her from doom.

The story is somewhat confusing as the professor uses alternating names, and is sometimes referred to as Provenier and sometimes Hovenier. Possibly, the novel hinges on references to other works, but I was not that interested to explore such developments in the story.

It was definitely an enjoyable read, but my preference for Meijsing's work is still with the more serious work written collectively as Joyce & Co. ( )