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Afterzen

$21.95
"Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear." The long-awaited follow-up to his insightful and delightful The Empty Mirror and A Glimpse of Nothingness.

The Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories

$22.00

Amsterdam is not really a hotbed of violent crime but wrongdoing does occur. The more bizarre events are passed to the team of Grijpstra and de Gier. The Amsterdam Cops - Henk Grijpstra and Rinus de Gier together with the commissaris and other colleagues on the police force - have appeared in fourteen novels and thirteen stories. All the stories are now collected in this volume which includes two that have never before been translated into English, as well as three that have previously been published only in a limited edition.

The Blond Baboon

$12.00
Grijpstra and de Gier are called to an elegant townhouse where the body of a middle-aged woman has been found in her garden with a broken neck. The slippery steps - and the lady's drinking problem - make it look like an accident. But the dead woman's wealth, a neighborhood pet poisoner, and an ex-lover nicknamed "the Baboon" convince the commissaris that it's murder.

The Corpse on the Dike

$11.00
A recluse has been shot right between the eyes as he stood looking out his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher who is a pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to report it. Is she guilty?

Death of a Hawker
$11.00
Amsterdam is normally sedate but today there is a riot in Newmarket Square. Constables have blocked access to adjoining Straight Tree Ditch Road all day. When the body of the "King" of the local street market is found in a room in his house on that street, his head bashed in, there are only two suspects: his lovely sister or the up-stairs boarder. Which one is the killer? Grijpstra and de Gier must discover the murderer's identity before another crime can be committed.

The Empty Mirror
$11.95
"Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery." The author's first book, originally published in 1973.

A Glimpse of Nothingness
$11.95
"Experiences in an American Zen Community." The author's second book, originally published in 1975.

The Hollow-Eyed Angel
$12.00
The commissaris is about to be retired from the Amsterdam police force when a volunteer policeman comes to him for help. A corpse has been found under an azalea bush in New York City's Central Park and although the local police don't agree, he fears his elderly uncle may have been murdered. The commissaris, who is being haunted by a nightmare -a skull superimposed upon the image of a sexy blonde Amsterdam streetcar driver- will be attending a Police Convention in New York so he agrees to make an inquiry. And the death's head dream comes true.

The Japanese Corpse
$12.00
A beautiful Eurasian waitress employed at Amsterdam's most elegant Japanese restaurant reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police search throughout The Netherlands and finally locate a corpse. But to find the killer, the commissaris and de Gier must go to Japan and match wits with a yakusa chieftain in his lair.

Judge Dee Plays His Lute
trade paperback $15.00

trade hardback $23.00

Limited/Signed edition Sold Out

Special World Mystery Convention Limited edition $35.00
The creator of Amsterdam cops Grijpstra and de Gier and Japanese Inspector Saito has been called "a superlative mystery writer" by Time. He has attracted countless fans around the world with his unique blend of urban and rural detection with just a dash of Zen. In Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories, van de Wetering has selected an interesting and diverse group of nine stories and a play. Four stories feature members of the Amsterdam "Murder Brigade." "The Flower Print Murder" is a tale of buried sexual obsession set along the rural Maine coast. "Happy Hermits" chronicles the last days of a retired swindler at a wildlife sanctuary in the Florida Keys. "Off Season" and "Inspector Saito and the Twenty-Sen Stamp" are two very different stories set in Japan. "Judge Dee Plays His Lute" is a radio play, produced originally in Germany, about strange goings on at fellow-Dutch author Robert van Gulik's funeral, published now in English for the first time. The author's sly wit and whimsical humor are very much in evidence. When you've finished Judge Dee Plays His Lute, you'll know why The Los Angeles Times calls van de Wetering "One of the masters of the mystery form" Dust jacket design by the author.

Just a Corpse at Twilight
(hardback 1st edtion) $20.00
Retired Amsterdam cop Henk Grijpstra gets a frantic phone call from his old partner, Rinus de Gier -now living on an island near Jamestown, Maine- who thinks he may have killed his girlfriend. He can't remember, he was drunk. He is being blackmailed, he may be arrested. Will his old partner please fly over at once? Could de Gier possibly be a murderer? Urged on by their former superior officer, the commissaris, Grijpstra travels to Maine to rescue his partner and to confront his own demons as well as de Gier's.

The Maine Massacre
$12.00
The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends the commissaris to the secluded town of Jameson, Maine. De Gier goes along to see the USA. But there has been a sinister series of deaths in the area and the two find themselves neck-deep in a murder investigation involving shady real estate deals, with a townful of suspects, and the icy breath of a cold-blooded killer stalking their every move.

Mangrove Mama and Other Tropical Tales of Terror
$50.00 Signed & limited in matching cloth slipcase
"Mangrove Mama" expresses a weird sense of joy, possibly instilled by the vast and subtle beauty of unlimited creation. Like in the other "tales of terror," there is a whiff of liberating meaninglessness inspired by the concept of what Eastern religions call the "all-explaining void." What to expect? --Jazz-loving "Murder Brigade" detectives attempt to live up to their counterparts' expectations in magic Amsterdam. --An amoral Key West retiree, who looks like God in a Children's Bible, and a nihilistic deputy sheriff aim for detachment by solving criminal riddles. --A Zen student in Japan spends a vacation solving the mystery of a Buddhist terminal hallucination. --An aspiring philosopher takes on both the Luftwaffe and the British Police in Corwall, England. --A Papua New Guinea sorcerer explains the mystery of how cannibalism fulfills subconscious needs. Seventeen short stories.

The Mind Murders
$12.00
Mr. Fortune is suspected of murdering his wife. Grijpstra and de Gier begin a search that leads to the unidentified corpse of a man stuffed into the trunk of a stolen Mercedes. But where is the body of Mrs. Fortune? Tracking a killer without a corpse and a corpse without a killer, the Amsterdam cops finally arrive at the bone-chilling truth in a blaze of brilliance, intuition, and intrigue.

Outsider in Amsterdam
$11.00
Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran as a restaurant-commune in a quiet Amsterdam street. Detective-Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide. First in The Amsterdam Cops series, originally published in 1975.

The Perfidious Parrot
$22.00
Grijpstra and de Gier, formerly of the Amsterdam "Murder Brigade," attempt to hide their ill-begotten stash of millions. Policemen on active duty Ketchup and Karate conspire with illegal merchants, a father & son millionaire team, to force the detectives to deal with sexual & musical terminal extravaganzas on several Caribbean islands. Meanwhile piracy leads to murder but a retired Dutch police chief's active nihilism and Key West's sergeant Ramona's erotic cruelty combine to erase a problem and to create an excitably acceptable non-solution.

Robert Van Gulik: His Life and Work

$12.00
A reissue of Van de Wetering's 1987 biography of Robert Van Gulik, the author of the Judge Dee mystery stories.

The Streetbird
$12.00
Sergeant de Gier sees a vulture at the scene of a murder in Amsterdam's red light district. The victim was a despicable pimp, now only a police matter to be disposed of with typical Dutch tidiness. However, once Grijpstra, de Gier and the canny commissaris get involved, their search leads to a denouement infinitely more shocking than the crime itself.

Tumbleweed
$10.00
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. Her tony clients all have sound alibis. Before the murderer is caught the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic, travel to Curacao, and pursue their clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland.

Shootout at Jackass Junction*

(Soon)

©1997 Dunn and Powell Books

Afterzen $21.95		"Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear." The long-awaited follow-up to his insightful and delightful The Empty Mirror and A Glimpse of Nothingness.
The Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories $22.00		Amsterdam is not really a hotbed of violent crime but wrongdoing does occur. The more bizarre events are passed to the team of Grijpstra and de Gier. The Amsterdam Cops - Henk Grijpstra and Rinus de Gier together with the commissaris and other colleagues on the police force - have appeared in fourteen novels and thirteen stories. All the stories are now collected in this volume which includes two that have never before been translated into English, as well as three that have previously been published only in a limited edition.
The Blond Baboon $12.00		Grijpstra and de Gier are called to an elegant townhouse where the body of a middle-aged woman has been found in her garden with a broken neck. The slippery steps - and the lady's drinking problem - make it look like an accident. But the dead woman's wealth, a neighborhood pet poisoner, and an ex-lover nicknamed "the Baboon" convince the commissaris that it's murder.
The Corpse on the Dike $11.00		A recluse has been shot right between the eyes as he stood looking out his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher who is a pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to report it. Is she guilty?
Death of a Hawker $11.00		Amsterdam is normally sedate but today there is a riot in Newmarket Square. Constables have blocked access to adjoining Straight Tree Ditch Road all day. When the body of the "King" of the local street market is found in a room in his house on that street, his head bashed in, there are only two suspects: his lovely sister or the up-stairs boarder. Which one is the killer? Grijpstra and de Gier must discover the murderer's identity before another crime can be committed.
The Empty Mirror $11.95		"Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery." The author's first book, originally published in 1973.
A Glimpse of Nothingness $11.95		"Experiences in an American Zen Community." The author's second book, originally published in 1975.
The Hollow-Eyed Angel $12.00		The commissaris is about to be retired from the Amsterdam police force when a volunteer policeman comes to him for help. A corpse has been found under an azalea bush in New York City's Central Park and although the local police don't agree, he fears his elderly uncle may have been murdered. The commissaris, who is being haunted by a nightmare -a skull superimposed upon the image of a sexy blonde Amsterdam streetcar driver- will be attending a Police Convention in New York so he agrees to make an inquiry. And the death's head dream comes true.
The Japanese Corpse $12.00		A beautiful Eurasian waitress employed at Amsterdam's most elegant Japanese restaurant reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police search throughout The Netherlands and finally locate a corpse. But to find the killer, the commissaris and de Gier must go to Japan and match wits with a yakusa chieftain in his lair.
Judge Dee Plays His Lute trade paperback $15.00 trade hardback $23.00 Limited/Signed edition Sold Out Special World Mystery Convention Limited edition $35.00		The creator of Amsterdam cops Grijpstra and de Gier and Japanese Inspector Saito has been called "a superlative mystery writer" by Time. He has attracted countless fans around the world with his unique blend of urban and rural detection with just a dash of Zen. In Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories, van de Wetering has selected an interesting and diverse group of nine stories and a play. Four stories feature members of the Amsterdam "Murder Brigade." "The Flower Print Murder" is a tale of buried sexual obsession set along the rural Maine coast. "Happy Hermits" chronicles the last days of a retired swindler at a wildlife sanctuary in the Florida Keys. "Off Season" and "Inspector Saito and the Twenty-Sen Stamp" are two very different stories set in Japan. "Judge Dee Plays His Lute" is a radio play, produced originally in Germany, about strange goings on at fellow-Dutch author Robert van Gulik's funeral, published now in English for the first time. The author's sly wit and whimsical humor are very much in evidence. When you've finished Judge Dee Plays His Lute, you'll know why The Los Angeles Times calls van de Wetering "One of the masters of the mystery form" Dust jacket design by the author.
Just a Corpse at Twilight (hardback 1st edtion) $20.00		Retired Amsterdam cop Henk Grijpstra gets a frantic phone call from his old partner, Rinus de Gier -now living on an island near Jamestown, Maine- who thinks he may have killed his girlfriend. He can't remember, he was drunk. He is being blackmailed, he may be arrested. Will his old partner please fly over at once? Could de Gier possibly be a murderer? Urged on by their former superior officer, the commissaris, Grijpstra travels to Maine to rescue his partner and to confront his own demons as well as de Gier's.
The Maine Massacre $12.00		The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends the commissaris to the secluded town of Jameson, Maine. De Gier goes along to see the USA. But there has been a sinister series of deaths in the area and the two find themselves neck-deep in a murder investigation involving shady real estate deals, with a townful of suspects, and the icy breath of a cold-blooded killer stalking their every move.
Mangrove Mama and Other Tropical Tales of Terror $50.00 Signed & limited in matching cloth slipcase		"Mangrove Mama" expresses a weird sense of joy, possibly instilled by the vast and subtle beauty of unlimited creation. Like in the other "tales of terror," there is a whiff of liberating meaninglessness inspired by the concept of what Eastern religions call the "all-explaining void." What to expect? --Jazz-loving "Murder Brigade" detectives attempt to live up to their counterparts' expectations in magic Amsterdam. --An amoral Key West retiree, who looks like God in a Children's Bible, and a nihilistic deputy sheriff aim for detachment by solving criminal riddles. --A Zen student in Japan spends a vacation solving the mystery of a Buddhist terminal hallucination. --An aspiring philosopher takes on both the Luftwaffe and the British Police in Corwall, England. --A Papua New Guinea sorcerer explains the mystery of how cannibalism fulfills subconscious needs. Seventeen short stories.
The Mind Murders $12.00		Mr. Fortune is suspected of murdering his wife. Grijpstra and de Gier begin a search that leads to the unidentified corpse of a man stuffed into the trunk of a stolen Mercedes. But where is the body of Mrs. Fortune? Tracking a killer without a corpse and a corpse without a killer, the Amsterdam cops finally arrive at the bone-chilling truth in a blaze of brilliance, intuition, and intrigue.
Outsider in Amsterdam $11.00		Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran as a restaurant-commune in a quiet Amsterdam street. Detective-Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide. First in The Amsterdam Cops series, originally published in 1975.
The Perfidious Parrot $22.00		Grijpstra and de Gier, formerly of the Amsterdam "Murder Brigade," attempt to hide their ill-begotten stash of millions. Policemen on active duty Ketchup and Karate conspire with illegal merchants, a father & son millionaire team, to force the detectives to deal with sexual & musical terminal extravaganzas on several Caribbean islands. Meanwhile piracy leads to murder but a retired Dutch police chief's active nihilism and Key West's sergeant Ramona's erotic cruelty combine to erase a problem and to create an excitably acceptable non-solution.
Robert Van Gulik: His Life and Work $12.00		A reissue of Van de Wetering's 1987 biography of Robert Van Gulik, the author of the Judge Dee mystery stories.
The Streetbird $12.00		Sergeant de Gier sees a vulture at the scene of a murder in Amsterdam's red light district. The victim was a despicable pimp, now only a police matter to be disposed of with typical Dutch tidiness. However, once Grijpstra, de Gier and the canny commissaris get involved, their search leads to a denouement infinitely more shocking than the crime itself.
Tumbleweed $10.00		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. Her tony clients all have sound alibis. Before the murderer is caught the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic, travel to Curacao, and pursue their clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland.
Shootout at Jackass Junction* (Soon)