De Cock en de ganzen van de dood by A.C. Baantjer
De Cock deals with threatening letters and a woman tied to a wheelchair, while a suspect held for beating an old couple to death may not be the real killer.
A.C. Baantjer was a Dutch writer. He worked as a police detective in Amsterdam for almost forty years. He used that work to write the De Cock series, one of the most read crime series in the Netherlands.
De Cock deals with threatening letters and a woman tied to a wheelchair, while a suspect held for beating an old couple to death may not be the real killer.
Two men from the higher circles of Amsterdam are murdered in the flat of a call girl, and the case falls to De Cock.
A raid on a cash transport van and the murder of its driver give De Cock and his colleagues a great deal of work.
A woman is murdered during a seance, and De Cock has to unmask the killer.
De Cock helps a friend whose daughter is suspected of murder, but he is soon caught up in a dark plot himself.
A De Cock mystery that opens with a short piece by A.C. Baantjer on death in crime fiction.
A boy of about eight brings a death notice addressed to De Cock to the Warmoesstraat station, and the funeral is the start of a puzzling murder case.
A De Cock mystery that opens with a short piece by A.C. Baantjer on death in crime fiction.
The body of a tramp is found against a church wall, but a doctor finds he was murdered in an unusual way, and the dead man turns out to be a rich baron.
A student found dead in a police cell was put there to sleep off the drink, but the post-mortem shows he was poisoned, and De Cock must find out who killed him.
A well-liked nurse is murdered and a young burglar is the obvious suspect. De Cock knows the burglar well and does not believe the simple story.
In a dark, narrow Amsterdam alley the body of a young woman is found in a fur coat. De Cock and Vledder face a case that seems impossible to crack.
A man who was insured for a very large sum is pulled dead from an Amsterdam canal. De Cock takes the case and Vledder senses trouble at once.
A young man is found stabbed in the dunes near Noordwijk and the local police get nowhere. The case lands on De Cock's desk in Amsterdam.
A double murder in a well-known Amsterdam hotel leaves the victims looking like grim harlequins. De Cock has only two witnesses to go on.
A young woman is reported missing by her sister, and De Cock fears she is already dead. The more he learns about her, the darker her life looks.
A sex worker is murdered in Amsterdam and suspicion lands on a young burglar. De Cock plays only a small part while a colleague leads the case.
On Christmas night a young woman's body is pulled from an Amsterdam canal. The dead woman was strangled and pregnant, and De Cock wants to close the case fast.
Detective De Cock is called back from his holiday to take over a stalled murder case. A sex worker has been killed and the trail has gone cold.
A young detective cannot let go of a sex worker's death and starts to dig into the reasons behind it. This is the first book in the long De Cock series.