First published 2004
Age Rogge stands at his window overlooking the Rechtboomssloot during the Nieuwmarkt riots when someone kills him. The murder weapon remains missing. Police find no clear motive for his death. The bead and wool merchant was popular with women and men alike. Several people live closely connected to his life. His sister Esther and business partner Louis Zilver share his house. His circle includes Klaas Bezuur, a money lender and former close friend, Cora Kops, his regular girlfriend, and Tilda van Andringa de Kempenaar, an impoverished noble with a scholarship who knows special mechanical devices. Detectives de Gier and Cardozo work undercover at the Albert Cuyp market. Grijpstra accompanies the commissioner to visit Age's contacts and tries escargot for the first time. The killer's identity emerges through dramatic revelation.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, dramatic-revelation
Setting: Rechtboomssloot, Nieuwmarkt, Albert Cuyp Market
Period: 20th-century
224 pages · Paperback · House of Books