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	Janwillem van de Wetering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Janwillem van de Wetering (Middle name: Lincoln, recently also uses Janwillem Vandewetering as a "pen and reference name"; born 12 February 1931) is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch; he is particularly noted for his detective fiction.
		Van de Wetering was born and raised in Rotterdam, but in later years he lived in South Africa, Japan, London, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Amsterdam and most recently in Maine, the setting of two of his Grijpstra and de Gier novels and his children's series about the porcupine Hugh Pine.
		The Philosophical Exercises of Janwillem van de Wetering
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	vandeweteringbiography
		Janwillem L. van de Wetering was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 1931.
		Van de Wetering, ever resistant to parental hinting, avoided the U.S. until 1975, when, retaining his Dutch nationality, he settled on the Maine Coast, where he can still be found today (1997).
		Finding happiness in Capetown's art scene van de Wetering refused to be transferred to the bleakness of Johannesburg, got fired, and stayed six years, drifting between odd jobs, reading, wandering the beaches, wondering what could be what.
	www.dpbooks.com /vandewe5.htm (1231 words)

	Amazon.de: The Japanese Corpse: A Novel: English Books: Janwillem Van De Wetering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Van de Wettering's books, the cops are far too unearthly to be nailed down to a specific locale; the Netherlands is just as good a place as any to borrow street names from.
		I don't know if van de Wetering is a native Dutchman writing in English or if he just had a shockingly bad translator, but neither of these possibilities explains the utter ineptitude of the plot, characterization, and dialog of this truly excruciating book.
		Wetering's novels) travel to Japan and by some obscure means identify the drug-running yakuza gang responsible while having a series of random cultural "experiences".
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0395257778 (1038 words)

	Brightsurf: Hollow-Eyed Angel by Janwillem van de Wetering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		De Wetering's blend of wry humor and Zen philosophy permeate the world inhabited by his tolerant, grumpy and engaging characters.
		Janwillem van de Wetering is best known for his low-key tales of a pair of good-natured Amsterdam detectives.
		Van de Wetering has a talent for giving his readers more than a casual glimpse of the philosophy of Zen Buddhism, yet he manages to do so without preaching about it.
	www.brightsurf.com /item/156947091X/Hollow-Eyed_Angel.html (1684 words)

	Grijpstra And De Gier Novels - Janwillem Van De Wetering
		Janwillem van de Wetering (Middle name: Lincoln, February 12 1931 -) is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch, he is particularly noted for his detective fiction.
		Van de Wetering was born and raised in Rotterdam, but in later years he lived in South Africa, Japan, London, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Amsterdam and most recently in Maine, the setting of one of his Grijpstra and de Gier novels and his childrens series about the porcupine Hugh Pine.
		His many travels and his experiences in a Zen monastery and as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary (being a policeman in ones spare time as he phrased it in his introduction to Outsider in Amsterdam) lend authenticity to his works of fiction and nonfiction.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Adachi4101/janwillem-van-de-wetering-grijpstra-and-de-gier-novels.html (205 words)

	Outsider In Amsterdam, Janwillem van der Wetering, 1569470170, Dan Staines
		Grijpstra and de Gier are summoned to investigate the death by hanging of Piet Verboom, owner of the Hindist Society commune and cafe-bar.
		The gruff, older Grijpstra and the young, hip and intellectual de Gier, although the classic 'chalk-and-cheese' police duo that readers have come to expect, and occasionally dread, are sufficiently sympathetic and quirky to engage the interest of the reader.
		Although at this stage van der Wetering had not quite developed the distinctive mix of surrealism, Zen philosophy and broad comedy that characterise many of his later Amsterdam Cops novels, but in balance, the plot is considerably more lucid and less deliberately obscure than some of the later novels.
	www.crimetime.co.uk /make_page.php?id=219 (290 words)

	Afterzen by Janwillem Van De Wetering and Janwillem Van De Wetering : Booksamillion.com (0312272618, Paperback)
		Janwillem van de Wetering is an extraordinary writer, as readers familiar with his works know, whether he is writing as a student of Zen or recounting the adventures of the distinctively different Amsterdam Cops in his mystery novels.
		Van de Wetering gives them his own distinctive touch of humor, downtoearth reality, and tough spirituality in the context of meetings and adventures with personalities "collaged from bits and pieces of teachers and fellow students who kindly came my way."
		In this third book of the trilogy, van de Wetering is at his accessible, honest, funny, and genuinely spiritual best.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0312272618 (206 words)

	Amazon.com: Outsider in Amsterdam (Grijpstra & de Gier Mystery): Books: Janwillem van de Wetering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The owner of a sleazy restaurant-cum-commune in the old quarter of Amsterdam is dead; his body hangs from a rafter, at first glance a suicide, at second a murder.
		The police call in Detective Grijpstra, a mild-mannered, middle-aged family man with tired feet and a bemused soul, and his partner, de Gier, a bachelor with a philosophical turn of mind who shares his modish apartment with a wayward Siamese cat and occasion such women as are not allergic to it.
		The clues are plentiful enough to be puzzling and lead to a juicy variety of suspects and helpers including a native Papuan -- former member of the Dutch Constabulary in New Guinea, the 'outsider' of the title.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1569470170?v=glance (2208 words)

	Amazon.com: The Blond Baboon (Van De Wetering, Janwillem, Grijpstra & De Gier Mystery.): Books: Janwillem van de ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Mind-Murders (Grijpstra-De Grier Series/Janwillem Van De Wetering) by Janwillem van de Wetering
		Grijpstra and de Gier are called in to figure out who was behind the murder.
		Van De Wetering's novels are always among the best mysteries around.
	www.amazon.com /Baboon-Wetering-Janwillem-Grijpstra-Mystery/dp/1569470634 (702 words)

	Brightsurf: Hard Rain (Amsterdam Cops S.) by Janwillem van de Wetering
		This is the eleventh book in Janwillem van de Wetering's famous series about the Amsterdam police force and is something of a masterpiece in a series that is noted for exceptional writing.
		The comedy masks grim truths, and van de Wetering reminds us just often enough that the Fernandus is the pleasant face that masks the horrors of organized crime.
		In other words, the Grijpstra and de Gier books aren't really about solving puzzles, and really, the plots are often not nearly as important as the interplay of characters and the fleeting glimpses into the quirky texture of life in non-picturesque Amsterdam.
	www.brightsurf.com /item/1569471045/Hard_Rain.html (1864 words)

	Janwillem van de Wetering - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Janwillem van de Wetering (Middle name: Lincoln; February 12 1931 -, who uses Janwillem Vandewetering as a "pen and reference name"), is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch; he is particularly noted for his detective fiction.
		Das Koan, a German radio play, scripted by Van de Wetering, was aired in 1994, based on Van de Wetering's biography of Robert van Gulik, creator of the Judge Dee series
		Wetering, Janwillem van de Wetering, Janwillem van de Wetering, Janwillem van de Wetering, Janwillem van de
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=609118 (624 words)

	Janwillem van de Wetering
		Van de Wetering's policemen are just as likely to...marvel at human nature as to shoot it down"
		Van de Wetering's style might be compared to caviar...Once you're hooked, there's nothing like it."
		"Van de Wetering has plotted his cases satisfyingly well for those who relish the puzzle.
	www.dpbooks.com /vandewet.htm (123 words)

	The Philosophical Exercises of Janwillem van de Wetering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Janwillem Lincoln van de Wetering was born in Rotterdam, The
		Van de Wetering clarifies the focus of the new novels and his
		Van de Wetering is at work upon further adventures of de
	www.avramdavidson.org /wetering.htm (3399 words)

	The Japanese Corpse (Soho Crime) (Janwillem van de Wetering)
		Van De Wetering is more emotionally extreme than usual as he leads De Gier into personal tragedy on his way to solving the mystery.
		Van de Wetering has an eye for detail without neglecting the plot.
		But then again, if it were too realistic it wouldn't be a real van de Wetering or good entertainment for that matter.
	www.truefresco.org /bookshop/viewproduct.php?country=us&asin=156947057X (518 words)

	Amazon.fr : Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear: Livres en anglais: Janwillem Van De Wetering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nearly 30 years ago, van de Wetering, who would later achieve fame as a mystery novelist, published The Empty Mirror, about his experiences at a Zen monastery in Japan in the mid-60s.
		Now the author has written a follow-up, AfterZen, told from the perspective of an aging soul who dropped most formal Zen practice years ago but still carries an abiding respect for the gut truths of the teaching and for at least some of its teachers.
		Much of the book has the air of the classic Zen saying, "If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him": with humor and occasional crankiness, van de Wetering knocks koans, meditation and some of the trappings of the monastic Zen life.
	www.amazon.fr /Afterzen-Experiences-Zen-Student-His/dp/0788197606 (402 words)

	Book Review: Streetbird by Janwillem van de Wetering
		A super pimp is murdered in the red light district and it is up to Amsterdam municipal police to close the case.
		Janwillem Van de Wetering was born in Rotterdam in 1931.
		Janwillem van de Wetering is the author of 37 books - even though he did not start writing until he was in his 40's.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /sleuths/vandewetering.htm (366 words)

	The Perfidious Parrot - Janwillem Van de Wetering - Soho Crime
		The Perfidious Parrot - Janwillem Van de Wetering - Soho Crime
		Janwillem van de Wetering's fourteenth Amsterdam Cops novel, The Perfidious Parrot, finds Grijpstra, de Gier, and the commissaris flmailed into investigating the mysterious hijacking of a supertanker's entire cargo.
		The adventure takes them to Key West and to the former Dutch colonies of Aruba and St. Eustatius in search of the missing oil and the villains who have killed more than once to protect their loot.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/1569471304/The_Perfidious_Parrot.htm (100 words)

	Unpublished In English - Janwillem Van De Wetering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unpublished In English - Janwillem Van De Wetering
		Eugen Eule und der Fall des verschwundenen Flohs, 2001 (childrens book in German) 1 Replaces: The Sergeants Cat and Other Stories, 1987 (anthology)
		3 With an intodruction by the translator, van de Wetering also translated many books from English to Dutch and two books from French to Dutch.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Adachi4101/janwillem-van-de-wetering-unpublished-in-english.html (89 words)

	1569470189 - Tumbleweed by Janwillem Van De Wetering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Maria van Buren, a beautiful, high-class prostitute, is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal.
		Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder.
		Before the murderer is caught, the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of fl magic, travel to Curacao, and pursue their clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland."--from back cover.Please feel free to contact us if you have additional questions about this book.
	www.biblio.com /isbn/1569470189.html (635 words)

	The Maine Massacre Van De Wetering, Janwillem- Textbook - Bookbyte.com
		The Maine Massacre by Van De Wetering, Janwillem REISSUE
		Van De Wetering, Janwillem/ Wetering, Janwillem Van De
		The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends Grijpstra--with his companion de Gier in tow--to Jamestown, Maine, where they find a town full of suspects and a series of shady real-estate deals.
	www.bookbyte.com /product.aspx?isbn=1569470642 (85 words)

	Mystery Guide - The Streetbird by Janwillem van de Wetering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Our Dutch police friends run the gamut from Commissaris Jan, a septuagenarian with a bad hip, who is probably a Zen master in disguise; to Karate and Ketchup, two cheerfully vicious little weasels; to Orang Utan, a crazed Ambonese motorcycle cop.
		The two main characters in the series are Hank Grijpstra, a stolid, much put-upon Dutch cheese, and Rinus de Gier, a dashing young buck with a handlebar moustache (the author sports a similar lip ornament).
		They are assigned to investigate the murder of a notorious Black pimp (prostitution is legal in Amsterdam, but pimps are frowned upon).
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkVandeweteringStreetbird.html (405 words)

	The Streetbird by Janwillem Van De Wetering - 1569470936
		One of Amsterdam's most despised pimps meets his demise, and the only witness seems to be a vulture that mysteriously appears at the scene of the crime.
		Grijpstra and de Gier unravel a crime that becomes progressively more shocking in the heart of Amsterdam's red-light district.
		What appears to be the welcome murder of a local, much-disliked pimp turns out to be much larger than that single crime as the Dutch authorities struggle to get to the bottom of the shocking truth.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/1569470936 (184 words)

	Authors, A-Z > V > Van De Wetering, Janwillem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Authors, A-Z > V > Van De Wetering, Janwillem
		I don't even care much for mysteries but this one caught my eye while in a physical bookstore looking for the new Burke novel by Andrew Vachss.
		The book is interesting because the characters are real; this one gives a peculiarly Dutch perspective on American culture, which at times is laugh-out-loud funny, like de Gier, in his eternally curious cop mode, wondering why on earth anyone would buy bags of ice.
	www.wenbook.co.uk /nBooks/588196_7.html (985 words)

	Janwillem Van De Wetering Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
		The Amsterdam Cops-Henk Grijpstra and Rinus de Gier-have appeared in fourteen novels and thirteen short stories.
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	Ibis Books: Books by Janwillem Van de Wetering
		Janwillem Van de Wetering / Hardcover (208 pages) / June 1999
		Janwillem Van de Wetering / Paperback (192 pages) / April 1999
		Janwillem Van de Wetering / Paperback (160 pages) / April 1999
	www.ibisbooks.com /books.mhtml?author=869 (216 words)

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		The Rattle Rat - Janwillem van de Wetering
		A body turns up in an Amsterdam canal, Grijpstra and De Gier supply the usual ingenuity and comic relief
	www.detective-fiction.com /janwillem-vandewetering.htm (325 words)

	Outsider in Amsterdam by Janwillem van de wetering \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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