Outsider in Amsterdam Author:Janwillem van de Wetering Book Club Edition: The owner of a sleazy restaurant-cum-commune in the old quarter of Amsterdam is dead, his body hangs from a rafter, at first glance a suicide, at second a murder. The police call in Detective Grijpstra, a mild-mannered, middle-aged family man with tired feet and a bemused soul, and his partner, de Gier, a bachlelor with a phi... more »losophical turn of mind who shares his modish apartment with a wayward Siamese cat and on occasion such women as are not allergic to it.....« less