Background
Freeling was born in London, but travelled widely, and ended his life at his long-standing home at Grandfontaine to the west of Strasbourg.
(This is a tale of love and of death in the cynical politi...)
This is a tale of love and of death in the cynical political worlds of Strasbourg and Paris ... Where the works of Jane Austen act as a relief to the spread of cancer. As we find out, there's ""no one like Jane in a tight place.""
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(A Van der Valk Thriller - On a parched Spanish hillside, ...)
A Van der Valk Thriller - On a parched Spanish hillside, Van der Valk spills blood and splinters bone. A handsome millionaire is missing. A naked girl has disappeared with him. Van der Valk has the arduous task of finding out why and where they are. And some people would shoot him for trying.
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(A Henri Castang Mystery - Replete with the volatile tensi...)
A Henri Castang Mystery - Replete with the volatile tensions of a political thriller, Freeling introduces the reader to the nebulous, frightening world of conspiracy. Henri Castang, renowned police inspector, is called in to investigate a car accident involving a French politician and his mistress. When Castang uncovers a top-level plot linking industrial and political leaders, he takes the law into his own hands with what turns out to be incredible consequences.
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(A story of crime and entrapment set in the colourful worl...)
A story of crime and entrapment set in the colourful world of crooked international art dealing.
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(This is the castle)
This is the castle
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(A gritty, terse glimpse at life through the indomitable l...)
A gritty, terse glimpse at life through the indomitable lens of a crime classic master. Portraying the oddities and kinks of human behaviour as well as the prejudices inherent in nations, Freeling casts a loving and sometimes scathing eye on humanity in this accomplished novel. Henri Castang is exposed as a raw, vulnerable man when faced with the cruel truth that he had a part, a share and even responsibility in the deaths of others throughout Europe.
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(Checking on an apparent runaway case, Brussels-based Insp...)
Checking on an apparent runaway case, Brussels-based Inspector Henri Castang learns the missing boy's identity and his connection to a former SS officer, prompting Castang to launch a full-scale kidnapping investigation.
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(A harmless, self-obsessed writer is attacked by muggers i...)
A harmless, self-obsessed writer is attacked by muggers in his own home but what starts as an assault turns into an unusual kidnapping. This is an entrancing tale where the hunter and the hunted become the subject of an enthralling scrutiny under the pen of a master crimewriter.
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(This was the end of the story that had started 'Once upon...)
This was the end of the story that had started 'Once upon a time, in a rainy country, there was a king...' The end had not happened in a rainy country, but on a bone-dry Spanish hillside, three hundred metres from where Van der Valk had left a lot of blood, some splintered bone, a few fragments of gut, and a ten-seventy-five Mauser rifle bullet. No one had broken any laws. But a handsome, middle-aged millionaire had disappeared with a naked girl. And Van der Valk was given the job of finding out why.
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( Van der Valk is on the case again as a mysterious lette...)
Van der Valk is on the case again as a mysterious letter is unearthed alluding to the murder of a man named Cabestan. In the letter, the murderer is named but van der Valk must find out first who this mysterious letter-writer is. What transpires is a tale of deception and adultery as the rich Carl Merckel, the managing director of the Lutz Brothers merchant bank, lays an accusation of cold blooded homicide of which, he claims, his wife had no part to play. A true master of popular crime fiction and creator of the ever-popular Inspector van der Valk and Henri Castang, Nicolas Freeling has written more than thirty books and has an innate empathy with France and its culture. Born in London in 1927, Freeling has lived much of his life in Europe, notably the Vosges hills and Strasbourg. An astute, gritty writer of European flavour, his novels reflect all that is great about crime fiction.
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(A Van der Valk Thriller - On a parched Spanish hillside, ...)
A Van der Valk Thriller - On a parched Spanish hillside, Van der Valk spills blood and splinters bone. A handsome millionaire is missing. A naked girl has disappeared with him. Van der Valk has the arduous task of finding out why and where they are. And some people would shoot him for trying. Winner of the 1967 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Stanley Ellin says: "Every book by Nicolas Freeling is a gem. THE KING OF THE RAINY COUNTRY, intriguing, sensual, acid in its view of the Good Life, is a perfect, blue-white thirty-carat diamond."
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(The peaceful bay of Porquerolles looks out over the water...)
The peaceful bay of Porquerolles looks out over the waters to Toulon and to Kapitan, an extraordinary drifter who lives for his beloved boat, Olivia, bobbing among the bustling blue of the shores. Kapitan is an enigma; a man who has sailed the Mediterranean for years. When Kapitan is given a chance to raise money for his boat he swoops at the chance, but this seemingly unassailable plan leads to big trouble in a little harbour.
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(The patient, hunch-playing policeman Van der Valk struggl...)
The patient, hunch-playing policeman Van der Valk struggles with a corpse which has no identity and then too many.... A first-rate story of crime and detection, says the New York Times. "Subtly powerful" "Freeling is the best. The Londoner is as good as Simenon, and I can think of no higher praise." -- Louis Untermeyer
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(>> Ritter der Nacht << nannten die Venezianer ihre Krimin...)
>> Ritter der Nacht << nannten die Venezianer ihre Kriminalpolizei, und dies nicht ohne Grund. Polizeiarbeit ist oft schwierig, düster und gefährlich. Dies wird Inspektor Castang von der Police Judiciaire einer französischen Großstadt wieder einmal besonders deutlich, als man im Kofferraum des Rolls-Royce eines hohen englischen Richters – eine Mädchenleiche findet. Ein Fall, mit dem sich Castang schwer in die Nesseln setzt. Und auch sein Chef und der Untersuchungsrichter geraten in Schwierigkeiten. Diplomatische Verwicklungen bahnen sich an… Nicolas Freeling, 1927 in London geboren, wuchs in Frankreich auf, studierte in Dublin und lebte danach eine Zeitlang in den Niederlanden. Bevor er zu schreiben begann, hatte er 15 Jahre lang im Hotelfach gearbeitet; 1970 erschien eine erste Autobiographie: “Kitchen”. Freeling hat den Amsterdamer Polizeiinspektor Van der Valk erfunden, der in manchem an Simenons Maigret erinnert.
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(A Henri Castang Mystery - For Colette Delavigne, one of F...)
A Henri Castang Mystery - For Colette Delavigne, one of France's youngest judges, life takes a terrifying twist when she returns from work one night to find her daughter has been abducted. Henri Castang is sought out to investigate her vanishing and Delavigne's profession seems to have more than a little to do with the disappearance. To Castang this is no ordinary kidnapping.
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(In a French town, in a tiny hotel, a young widow vanishes...)
In a French town, in a tiny hotel, a young widow vanishes. Castang is interested only because the last name in the register belongs to an old Polish-Jewish painter who has never set foot there. Who used his name and who leaves, in this name, a large sum of money in a Swiss bank?
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(A harmless, self-obsessed writer is attacked by muggers i...)
A harmless, self-obsessed writer is attacked by muggers in his own home but what starts as an assault turns into an unusual kidnapping. This is an entrancing tale where the hunter and the hunted become the subject of an enthralling scrutiny under the pen of a master crimewriter.
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(Hubertus van Bijl's family has a long and respected histo...)
Hubertus van Bijl's family has a long and respected history in the Dutch flower trade. Now retired, Bert busies himself with a bit of puttering around the house and long walks in the Zandvoort dunes near the coast of Holland. His wife, Willy, is loyal and dutiful-always saying "Bless You" when he sneezes-though Bert accepts that passion has left the marriage long ago. But ripples of unease soon appear in the quietude: The local authorities are conducting a door-to-door investigation into the murder of Carla Zomerlust, a young student whose body is found along a dune path. Through a diary-like narrative, the reader learns that Bert is not the docile botanist he-and everyone who knows him-considers himself to be. In a novel that plumbs the depths of madness, Nicolas Freeling creates his most compelling and disturbing work to date in this chilling examination of crime from the inside out.
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(Es ist nicht die Stadt des Himmlischen Friedens, aber auc...)
Es ist nicht die Stadt des Himmlischen Friedens, aber auch kein Ort, in dem nur Düsterkeit herrscht. Castangs Stadt ist real, erfüllt von pulsierendem Leben, erschreckend und heiter – und bewohnt von den Phantasiegestalten eines höchst originellen Autors: Henri Castang und seinen Kollegen, Freunden und Bekannten. Castang, der Kriminalinspektor, der für Commissaire Richard den Mord an dem Finanzier Etienne Marcel aufklären soll… Nicolas Freeling, 1927 in London geboren, wuchs in Frankreich auf, studierte in Dublin und lebte danach eine Zeitlang in den Niederlanden. Bevor er zu schreiben begann, hatte er 15 Jahre lang im Hotelfach gearbeitet; 1970 erschien eine erste Autobiographie: “Kitchen”. Freeling hat den Amsterdamer Polizeiinspektor Van der Valk erfunden, der in manchem an Simenons Maigret erinnert.
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Freeling was born in London, but travelled widely, and ended his life at his long-standing home at Grandfontaine to the west of Strasbourg.
A television series based on the character was produced for the British Independent Television network by Thames Television during the 1970s, and revived in the 1990s. He had followed a variety of occupations, including the armed services and the catering profession. He began writing during a three-week prison sentence, after being convicted of taking home some veal from a restaurant where he worked, though this was common practice in the restaurant trade.
In 1968 his novel Love in Amsterdam was adapted as the film Amsterdam Affair directed by Gerry O"Hara and starring Wolfgang Kieling as Van Der Valk.
(Checking on an apparent runaway case, Brussels-based Insp...)
(The peaceful bay of Porquerolles looks out over the water...)
(A Henri Castang Mystery - For Colette Delavigne, one of F...)
(A Henri Castang Mystery - Replete with the volatile tensi...)
(A harmless, self-obsessed writer is attacked by muggers i...)
(A harmless, self-obsessed writer is attacked by muggers i...)
( Van der Valk is on the case again as a mysterious lette...)
(The patient, hunch-playing policeman Van der Valk struggl...)
(This was the end of the story that had started 'Once upon...)
(A Van der Valk Thriller - On a parched Spanish hillside, ...)
(A Van der Valk Thriller - On a parched Spanish hillside, ...)
(Es ist nicht die Stadt des Himmlischen Friedens, aber auc...)
(A story of crime and entrapment set in the colourful worl...)
(>> Ritter der Nacht << nannten die Venezianer ihre Krimin...)
(This is a tale of love and of death in the cynical politi...)
(A gritty, terse glimpse at life through the indomitable l...)
(Hubertus van Bijl's family has a long and respected histo...)
(In a French town, in a tiny hotel, a young widow vanishes...)
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(This is the castle)
