num_pages: 320
description: Douwe Scherjoen was a well-to-do livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland. Then his corpse was found, half-charred by flames, floating in a dory in Amsterdam's harbor. No one knows why he was in the nation's capital, far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum. But since Grijpstra is Friesian by birth and can understand the language, he and his partner de Gier are dispatched to find the killer—or at least the motive for the crime. And they discover that while no one, not even his wife, liked the victim, the culprit is the unlikeliest suspect of all.
language: English
title: The Rattle-Rat
titlecomplete: The Rattle-Rat
genres: 20th Century, Detective, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 239
places: Friesland, Netherlands
series: Amsterdam Cops Mysteries
publisher: Soho Crime