DeKok and the Vendetta DeKok and Murder on the Menu DeKok and Murder Depicted.

DeKok and Dance Macabre.

DeKok and the Disfiguring Death.

About the Author:.

Albert Cornelis Baantjer (BAANTJER) is the most widely read author in the Netherlands. In a country with less than 15 million inhabitants, almost one out of every four people has bought a Baantjer book. More than 40 t.i.tles in his "DeKok" series have been written and almost 4 million copies have been sold. Baantjer can safely be considered a publishing phenomenon. In addition he has written other fiction and non-fiction and writes a daily column for a Dutch newspaper. It is for his "DeKok" books, however, that he is best known. Every year more than 700,000 Dutch people check a "Baantjer/DeKok" out of a library. The Dutch version of the Reader's Digest Condensed Books (called "Best Books" in Holland) has selected a Baantjer/DeKok book seven (7) times for inclusion in its series of condensed books.

Baantjer writes about Detective-Inspector DeKok of the Amsterdam Munic.i.p.al Police (Homicide). Baantjer is himself a former inspector of the Amsterdam Police and is able to give his fictional characters the depth and the personality of real characters encountered during his long (38 years) police career. Many people in Holland sometimes confuse real-life Baantjer with fictional DeKok. The careful, authorized translations of his work published by InterContinental Publishing should fascinate the English speaking world as it has the Dutch reading public.

ISBN 1 881164 61 6.

DEKOK AND THE SORROWING TOMCAT. English translation copyright 1993 by Intercontinental Publishing, Inc. Translated from De c.o.c.k en de treurende kater, by Baantjer [Albert Cornelis Baantjer], copyright 1977 by Uitgeverij De Fontein, Baarn, Netherlands. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address Intercontinental Publishing, P.O. Box 7242, Fairfax Station, VA 22039.

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A condensed version of this book appeared in the original language in Het Beste boek (Best Books), a publication of Uitgeversmaatschappij The Reader's Digest. Copyright 1981 by Uitgeversmaatschappij The Reader's Digest N.V., Amsterdam & Brussels.

1st American edition: May, 1993 Hardcover edition: June, 1993 Also published as soft-cover edition under ISBN 1-881164-05-5 eISBN 9781250085047 First eBook edition: April 2015 *Commissaris = a rank equivalent to Captain.

*Chief Constable: The highest rank in the Dutch police force. There is only one Chief Constable for all of Amsterdam. Other major cities and/or districts have their own Chief Constable. It is not a civilian rank.

*From the French: "look for the woman", an expression often used by the French police, because of the once popular belief that every (French) crime, somehow, was a crime of pa.s.sion.

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