By Baantjer

Price: $14

Crime Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-933108-22-3 (PB)
978-1-933108-43-8 (Ebook)
5.25" x 7.75", 196 pages, paperback

Inspector DeKok and his partner, Vledder, are ordered to protect a millionaire’s art treasures, exhibited during a special showing in Amsterdam. Barely recovered from the shock of witnessing the treasures’ owner verbally abuse an old lady, the two detectives are called away to a nearby building to help prevent the execution of a young man chained to the pipes of the central heating system. That same night, a priceless silver jug is stolen from the exhibition.

Readers face, at first, a jigsaw puzzle of more-than-usual difficulty, then slowly see a mathematically precise course of events. As with all of A. C. Baantjer’s books, nothing is ever what it seems and there is never such a thing as an isolated incident. DeKok’s investigations always deliver a chain reaction of events with dead ends, winding paths, and surprising endings.

Baantjer is the most widely read author in the Netherlands.  A former Detective Inspector of the Amsterdam Police, his fictional characters reflect the depth and personality of individuals encountered during his thirty-eight year career in law enforcement. He was recently knighted by the Dutch monarchy.