Janwillem van de Wetering Knihy

Jeho cesta skončila v Japonsku, kde se stal laickým žákem mnichů v zenbuddhistickém klášteře. Setrval tam téměř dva roky a snažil se přizpůsobit svou zcela evropsky orientovanou mysl přísnému vnitřnímu řádu kláštera a změnit svá dosavadní měřítka. Po této době, naplněné dramatickými změnami v názorech na život a jeho smysl, našel pro sebe životní cestu a navíc pochopil z této filozofie tolik, že se o její znalost a své zkušenosti mohl podělit s evropsky vychovaným čtenářem.

Starý komisař vyřizuje v Americe pozůstalost po zemřelém švagrovi, který zemřel za záhadných okolností, stejně jako jeho sousedé.

A young American woman is found stabbed in a temple. A boy who sells noodle soup is accused of drug dealing. An old man who never drinks becomes so drunk he dies in his burning house. These cases are handed to Inspector Saito Masanobu, renowned as the most clever detective on the Kyoto police force. But no one can guess the secret of his success: Parallel Cases Under the Pear Tree, an ancient book devised by Chinese magistrates a thousand years ago. With it, Saito can solve the most baffling cases. For even in the holy city, death and danger lurk around every corner....

The philosophical Detective Adjutant Grijpstra and his assistant, Sergeant de Gier, appear in eight of these superb mystery stories. In one they learn which of two lady friends put a bullet through the head of a handsome oceanographer found dead amidst his tanks of shiny, living mussels. In another they strong-arm a brutal crime-lord whose henchman threatens the sergeant's cat. Another finds them wondering how a man could explode a wife-killing bomb in the country while he was, all the time, in his city office. Still another leads them to a murderer whose weapon is a chocolate Easter bunny. And that's just the beginning: the collection contains six other stories, each touched with that curious blend of wit and the macabre which readers have come to expect from the pen of Janwillem van de Wetering.

Amsterdam detectives De Gier and Grijpstra, investigating an apparently unmotivated murder, come to slippery grips with a stealthy hijacker and a sinister Arab crime-syndicate head

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.

Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier uncover evidence of sorcery as they investigate the murder of a high-class prostitute who lived in a canal houseboat

When Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran, Detective-Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police are sent to investigate.