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Aupres de Ma Blonde (Piet and Arlette Van Der Valk, Bk 11)
Aupres de Ma Blonde - Piet and Arlette Van Der Valk, Bk 11 Author:Nicolas Freeling The back cover: "The strangest and most powerful of all the Van der Valk stories." - Stanley Ellin — The famouse detective Piet Van der Valk has been kicked upstairs to a quiet desk job to work out his days until retirement. But he is still the maverick of the Amsterdam police force and too restless for paper work alone. A seemingly minor inciden... more »t - a young man concerned about a gold antique watch - sets him off on a personal investigation that also involves his engaging French wife, Arlette. It is she who embarks on the quest that leads through the rarified world of art and antique dealers to a squalid sex shop - "The Golden Apples of the Hesperides" - as she scours Amsterdam for a nameless, faceless killer.« less