The Rattle-Rat (A Grijpstra & De Gier)
Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008) was born and raised in Rotterdam, but lived most recently in Surry, Maine. He served as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary and was once a Zen Buddhist monk. He is renowned for his detective fiction, includingOutsider in Amsterdam,The Corpse on the Dike,The Japanese Corpse, and eleven other books in the Grijpstra and de Gier series.