Bibliograph

Love in Amsterdam, A Novel, Nicolas Freeling

Type

Label

Love in Amsterdam, A Novel, Nicolas Freeling

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Love in Amsterdam

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Nicolas Freeling

Series statement

Van der Valk series, 1

Sub title

A Novel

Summary

In this classic mystery, a Dutch police detective investigates a woman's murder with assistance from the man accused of killing her. A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman. It looks like a straightforward case-but police inspector Van der Valk is not convinced. Despite all the evidence-and the fact that Martin originally denied he was at the apartment-he believes Martin is not guilty of murder. Instead of charging him, Van der Valk takes him on a tour: a tour of the investigation, a tour of Martin's own past and a tour into the darkly obsessive world of Elsa . . . NOW A LIMITED SERIES ON MASTERPIECE PBS Praise for Nicolas Freeling and Van der Valk "Freeling's Inspector Van der Valk is less rugged than Rebus, less parsonical than Dalgliesh, more Morse than Frost, and more Maigret than any of them. Marvelous." -Anita Brookner "[Freeling] has given the detective story new dimensions much as John Le Carré has done for the spy novel." -Newsweek

Target audience

adult

Classification