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A.C. Baantjer DeKok and Variations on Murder
As has been her habit since the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Haesbergen does nightly rounds in the large office building where she resides. Her husband had been the building superintendent, and an apartment on the top floor came with the job. One night she encounters the managing director in the boardroom, sitting in his chair at the head of the table. She hastily walks up to him, and to her horror, she finds him dead. She rushes up to her apartment to call someone, but who? Deciding it better...
Engels | ePub2, 5,8 MB | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and the death of a clown
Without the slightest trace, an antique jewel collection disappears from a house along one of the great canals in Amsterdam. Inspector DeKok feels compelled to help the victim of the theft, unknowingly signing up for a homicide case, as well. Soon after commencing his investigation into the robbery, DeKok and his partner Vledder are called to the foot of The Criers’ Tower. A clown lies dead along the canal with a large, shining knife protruding from his back, creating a blossom of blood around the...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and murder by installment
Although at first it seemed to be a case for the narcotics division, this latest crime soon evolves into a series of sinister murders, which seem almost impossible to solve. Never before have inspectors DeKok and Vledder been so involved in a case where murder, drug smuggling, and child prostitution are almost daily occurrences. Blackmail enters the picture, and meanwhile bodies continue to be found. In the past even a single murder used to dominate the front pages of the newspapers for weeks, but...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and the somber nude
A beautiful, free-spirited young woman has gone missing, and those closest to her fear for her life. Inspector DeKok is soon called upon to find out her whereabouts. It quickly becomes clear that this Nanette may have harbored a dark side, one that embraced blackmail, emotional cruelty, and a wicked selfishness. The more DeKok learns of the beguiling Nanette, the more he feels that he is on the trail of a dead woman. DeKok’s suspicions are confirmed with a phone call: the dismembered body of a...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and the dead lovers
Inspector DeKok and his partner Vledder are ordered to protect the eccentric Manfred Nettelhorst’s art treasures, exhibited during a special showing in Amsterdam. But before the exhibition has come to a close, the two detectives are called away to a nearby apartment building to investigate the murder of a man handcuffed to a radiator, shot execution style. That same night, an exquisite silver ewer is stolen from the exhibition. Following the trail, DeKok stumbles across an invisible line between...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and the mask of death
Women are checking in to Slotervaart Hospital, but not checking out. According to hospital files, they were never even there. Inspectors DeKok and Vledder are called upon to investigate this alarming disappearing act. Eerily, the people closest to these vanishing women all comment on a change in their faces: they have become listless, fatigued, and seemingly wear a ‘mask of death’. All indications point to foul play, but the bodies have yet to turn up. DeKok is stumped as to how these women are...
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and the dead harlequin
Inspector DeKok is faced with a grotesque double murder in a well-known Amsterdam hotel. He finds the murder victims looking like macabre wooden harlequins. Inspector DeKok must unravel clues from two unexpected characters: a six-year-old girl who has trouble sleeping, and a respected accountant who seeks DeKok’s advice on committing the perfect crime. But when DeKok meets with the murderer, he tries everything possible to prevent the man from giving himself up to the police… Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Baantjer DeKok and murder by melody
Inspector DeKok finds himself in the midst of outwardly disparate motives and personalities surrounding the deaths of two reformed junkies and their landlady, a former prostitute. However, there is one connection in the madness, because music threads its way among and around the list of suspects and victims. DeKok discovers that the trail leading to this melodious murderer is as long as a symphonic masterpiece. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Catherine Steadman De verdwijning
Actrice Mia Eliot is vanuit Londen naar LA gekomen om auditie te doen – haar kans om definitief door te breken. Ze voelt zich een buitenbeentje in de stad vol beroemde filmsterren en meedogenloze competitie, tot ze Emily ontmoet. Ook zij is actrice, maar ze is vriendelijk en oprecht en Mia kan het onmiddellijk goed met haar vinden. Maar dan verdwijnt Emily plotseling en Mia blijkt de laatste persoon te zijn die haar heeft gezien. Er duikt een vrouw op die beweert dat ze Emily is, maar Mia weet meteen...
Fictie
Engels | 291 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Xander, Haarlem | 2021
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Genevieve Cogman The mortal word
Bibliothecaris en magiër Irene Winters zoekt, samen met dectective Peregrine Vale, in historisch Parijs tijdens vredesonderhandelingen tussen draken en Fae naar een koelbloedige moordenaar.
Fictie
Engels | 417 pagina's | Pan Books, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Fred Vargas The Chalk Circle Man
Commissaire Adamsberg
Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction Guardian Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop. When strange blue chalk...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Fred Vargas This Poison Will Remain
Commissaire Adamsberg
** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain' ANN CLEEVESAfter three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull
a story
Symbolisch verhaal over een zeemeeuw in wiens gedachten en levenswijze de vlieger Bach zich tracht te verplaatsen.
Fictie
Engels | ePub2, 5,8 MB | Harper Thorsons, [Nederland] | 2021
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James Herriot Every living thing
Episoden uit het leven van een Engelse veearts (bewerkt en met woordverklaringen in het Engels).
Fictie
Engels | 96 pagina's | Aschehoug [etc.], Copenhagen [etc.] | 1994
Gedrukt boek
Todd Strasser Free Willy
Een verweesde dakloze elfjarige jongen voelt een lotsverbondenheid met een jonge walvis in gevangenschap in een natuurpark.
Fictie
Engels | 33 pagina's | Penguin Books, London [etc.] | 1997
Gedrukt boek
Jack London The call of the wild and White Fang
Twee romans over de lotgevallen van een sledehond en een wolfshond in de witte wildernis van Canada en Alaska.
Fictie
Engels | 278 pagina's | Signet Classics, New York [etc.] | 1991
Gedrukt boek
Jack London The call of the wild, White fang, and other stories
Engels | 410 pagina's | Penguin Books, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1981
Gedrukt boek
Jack London Jack London
boxed set
Twee verhalen over de lotgevallen van een sledehond en een wolfshond in de witte wildernis van Canada en Alaska. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | Blackstone Audio, Inc, [Ashland, OR] | 2006
Luisterboek (cd)
R.K. Narayan A tiger for Malgudi
Bij monde van een tijger, geboren in het oerwoud in India, wordt verhaald over het leven in een dorp in India.
Fictie
Engels | 151 pagina's | Penguin Books, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1984
Gedrukt boek
Detectives