Books by Albert Cornelis Baantjer and Complete Book Reviews
Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author Intrigue Press $13.95 (354p) ISBN 978-1-890768-43-0
Intrigue Press offers readers two new additions to its WorldKrime list, a series that features compelling backgrounds for the dance between villain and hero: each mystery is set in an international locale and penned by a local author. Murder in ...
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Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author, H. G. Smittenaar, Translator , trans. from the Dutch by H.G. Smittenaar. Speck $24 (181p) ISBN 978-1-933108-30-8
First published in 1987, this clever mystery in Baantjer's series featuring Inspector DeKok of the Amsterdam police's Warmoes Street station (DeKok and the Murder in Bronze
, etc.) should help gain him new readers in the U.S. A distraught...
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Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author, H. G. Smittenaar, Translator Intercontinental Publishing $7.95 (205p) ISBN 978-1-881164-12-8
Detective-Inspector DeKok's latest case begins with the delivery of a death announcement for Frederik Johannes Dinterloo with a message on the back: ``to meet the next victim, . . . attend the funeral.'' DeKok and his partner, Dick Vledder, note...
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Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author, H. G. Smittenaar, Translator Intercontinental Publishing $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-881164-04-3
Baantjer's ( Murder in Amsterdam ) latest mystery finds his hero, Inspector DeKok, in fine form. His eyebrows continue to have ``a life of their own,'' and they get plenty of exercise in this tale of murderous revenge, as Pierre Brassel, a respected
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Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author, H. G. Smittenaar, Translator Intercontinental Publishing $9.95 (215p) ISBN 978-1-881164-00-5
This first translation of Baantjer's work into English supports the mystery writer's reputation in his native Holland as a Dutch Conan Doyle. Baantjer's Inspector DeKok is a curmudgeon tempered by years on the Amsterdam police force into sometimes...
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Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author, H. G. Smittenaar, Translator Intercontinental Publishing $7.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-881164-05-0
``Cunning Pete'' Geffel is the type of lowlife crook Detective-Inspector DeKok likes. An ``innocent blackmailer,'' Geffel plays by a set of ambiguous moral rules that are always shifting but that cry out for vengeance when violated. Now, someone has
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Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author, H. G. Smittenaar, Translator Intercontinental Publishing $7.95 (202p) ISBN 978-1-881164-10-4
Detective-Inspector DeKok, of Amsterdam's homicide department, returns to sort out a trio of puzzling deaths in another solid offering from Baantjer ( DeKok and the Sorrowing Tomcat ). DeKok is called in when tourists discover a corpse, with legs...
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Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author, H. G. Smittenaar, Translator Intercontinental Publishing $7.95 (196p) ISBN 978-1-881164-13-5
The 14th title in the Dutch DeKok series to be published in the U.S. features veteran detective-inspector DeKok (whom his creator dubs ``the gray sleuth''), who stumbles his way to the solution of his case while ``rippling his eyebrows in an uncanny
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Albert Cornelis Baantjer, Author, H. G. Smittenaar, Translator Intercontinental Publishing $9.95 (211p) ISBN 978-1-881164-16-6
A bestselling mystery writer in his native Netherlands, Baantjer remains relatively and undeservedly unknown in the U.S., although this is the 17th (out of more than 40) DeKok mystery published here. Detective Inspector Jurriaan DeKok of the...
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