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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Random House Inc
Publication date March 1, 1981
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780394746920
ISBN-10 0394746929
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $2.50
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Summary
Working on an anonymous tip and his own intuition, Inspector Van der Valk investigates a murder that was cleverly disguised as heart failure
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Van der Valk is on the case again as a mysterious letter is unearthed alluding to the murder of a man named Cabestan. In the letter, the murderer is named but van der Valk must find out first who this mysterious letter-writer is. What transpires is a tale of deception and adultery as the rich Carl Merckel, the managing director of the Lutz Brothers merchant bank, lays an accusation of cold blooded homicide of which, he claims, his wife had no part to play.

A true master of popular crime fiction and creator of the ever-popular Inspector van der Valk and Henri Castang, Nicolas Freeling has written more than 30 books and has an innate empathy with France and its culture. Born in London in 1927, Freeling has lived much of his life in Europe, notably the Vosges hills and Strasbourg. An astute, gritty writer of European flavour, his novels reflect all that is great about crime fiction.

Nicolas Freeling's The King of the Rainy Country received a 1967 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Novel. He also won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writer's Association, and France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. In 1968 his novel Love in Amsterdam was adapted as the film Amsterdam Affair directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Wolfgang Kieling as van der Valk.



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Paperback
Book cover for 9780394746920 Book cover for 9781448206988 Book cover for 9781842328422
 
Reprint edition from Bloomsbury USA Academic (December 20, 2012)
9781448206988 | details & prices | 238 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $15.99
About: Van der Valk is on the case again as a mysterious letter is unearthed alluding to the murder of a man named Cabestan.
from House of Stratus Ltd (January 1, 2001)
9781842328422 | details & prices | 206 pages | List price $9.95
About: mysterious letter alluding to the murder of Cabestan by a named killer, Dr Hubert van der Post, arouses the interests of the irascible and ever-suspicious van der Valk who decides to find out who the mysterious letter writer is.
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from Random House Inc (March 1, 1981)
9780394746920 | details & prices | List price $2.50
About: Working on an anonymous tip and his own intuition, Inspector Van der Valk investigates a murder that was cleverly disguised as heart failure

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