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    "description": "\"[Van de Wetering] is doing what Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull.\"&#160;<b>&mdash;John Leonard</b><br><br>On a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, a man is found hanging from the ceiling beam of his bedroom, upstairs from the new religious society he founded: a group that calls itself &ldquo;Hindist&rdquo; and supposedly mixes elements of various Eastern traditions. Detective-Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide, but they are immediately suspicious of the circumstances.<br><br>This now-classic novel, first published in 1975, introduces Janwillem van de Wetering&rsquo;s lovable Amsterdam cop duo of portly, wise Gripstra and handsome, contemplative de Gier. With its unvarnished depiction of the legacy of Dutch colonialism and the darker facets of Amsterdam&rsquo;s free drug culture, this excellent procedural asks the question of whether a murder may ever be justly committed.",
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