Janwillem van de Wetering

Janwillem van de Wetering (Middle name: Lincoln; February 12 1931 -, who uses Janwillem Vandewetering as a "pen and reference name"), is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch; he is particularly noted for his detective fiction. His most popular creations are Grijpstra and de Gier, a pair of Amsterdam police officers who figure in a lengthy series of novels and short stories. He has also written stories for children and nonfiction works. He usually writes in Dutch and then in English; the two versions often differ considerably.

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Van de Wetering was born and raised in Rotterdam, but in later years he lived in South Africa, Japan, London, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Amsterdam and most recently in Maine, the setting of two of his Grijpstra and de Gier novels and his children's series about the porcupine Hugh Pine. His many travels and his experiences in a Zen Buddhist monastery and as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary ("being a policeman in one's spare time" as he phrased it in his introduction to Outsider in Amsterdam) lend authenticity to his works of fiction and nonfiction.

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Detective fiction: Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. It is closely related to mystery fiction but generally contains more of a puzzle element that must be solved, generally by a single protagon...

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