Albert Cornelis Baantjer is the Netherland's most widely read author and his hero DeKok is adored and highly praised. The cases DeKok faces are so real that sometimes he and his creator are thought to be the same person since Baantjer worked as a homicide detective in Amsterdam for twenty-five years
DeKok and the Somber Nude
โ Scribed by Baantjer, A C
- Book ID
- 109629099
- Publisher
- Fulcrum Publishing
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Series
- Inspector DeKok
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781933108131
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
DeKok nodded. The seasoned inspector wiped the raindrops from his face, bent down gingerly, and carefully lifted a corner of the canvas. Slowly the head became visible: a severed girl's head. DeKok felt the blood drain from his face, his stomach turning into an icy cold pit. "Is that all you found?" he asked."A little farther," the man answered with sad disbelief, "is the rest."Spread out among the dirt and refuse were the remaining parts of the body: the arms, the long, slender legs, and the petite torso. There was no clothing.DeKok faces death as an inevitable part of life, but when things turn this macabre, it's a hard reality to stomach.
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