Janwillem van de Wetering

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Janwillem van de Wetering (1931-) is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch; he is particularly noted for his detective fiction. His most popular creations are Grijpstra and de Gier, a pair of Amsterdam police officers who figure in a lengthy series of novels and short stories. He has also written stories for children and nonfiction works. He usually writes in Dutch and then in English; the two versions often differ considerably.

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 children's series about the porcupine Hugh Pine. His many travels and his experiences in a Zen Buddhist monastery and as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary ("being a policeman in one's spare time" as he phrased it in his introduction to Outsider in Amsterdam) lend authenticity to his works of fiction and nonfiction.

Table of contents

1 Partial bibliography

1.1 Detective novels
1.2 Children's books
1.3 Non-fiction

2 External links

Partial bibliography

Note: Only the English-language editions of van de Wetering's books are included.

Detective novels

Outsider in Amsterdam†, 1975
Tumbleweed†, 1976
The Corpse on the Dike†, 1976
Death of a Hawker†, 1977
The Japanese Corpse†, 1977
The Blond Baboon†, 1978
The Maine Massacre†, 1979
The Mind-Murders†, 1981
The Butterfly Hunter, 1982
Bliss and Bluster, 1982
The Streetbird†, 1983
Inspector Saito's Small Satori, 1985 (anthology)
The Rattle-Rat†, 1985
Murder by Remote Control, 1986 (graphic novel)
Hard Rain†, 1986
The Sergeant's Cat and Other Stories†, 1987 (anthology)
Seesaw Millions, 1988
Just A Corpse at Twilight†, 1994
The Hollow-Eyed Angel†, 1996
The Perfidious Parrot†, 1997

† Grijpstra and de Gier stories

Children's books

Little Owl, 1978
Hugh Pine, 1980
Hugh Pine and the Good Place, 1981
Hugh Pine and Something Else, 1983

Non-fiction

The Empty Mirror, 1971
A Glimpse of Nothingness, 1975
Robert Van Gulik: His Life, His Work, 1988
Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student out on His Ear, 1999

External links

The Philosophical Exercises of Janwillem van de Wetering