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  <title><![CDATA[Outsider in Amsterdam (Grijpstra &amp; de Gier Mystery)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran as a restaurant-commune in a quiet Amsterdam street.  Detective-Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide. 

&lt;i&gt;Outsider in Amsterdam&lt;/i&gt; is the first in The Amsterdam Cops series of internationally renowned mysteries.  It was originally published in the United States twenty years ago.  There are now twelve novels in the series which has been published in fourteen languages. </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1975</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Outsider in Amsterdam (Grijpstra &amp; de Gier Mystery)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janwillem van de Wetering]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 06 10:05:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 09 04:32:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first in the Grijpstra and de Gier series.  I have read maybe two others, out of order, over the years, and enjoyed them well enough but for whatever reason, I had not picked up the first one until I saw it recently at the library.<br/><br/>So, Grijpstra and de Gier are police detectiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62341253">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="54112226">
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    <name><![CDATA[Trish]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 07:04:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 05 05:43:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would never have heard of this series without the Daily Telegraph's &quot;50 crime writers you should read before you die&quot; list, but the write-up sounded intersting, so I decided to give it ago. It was a pretty good story, with two likeable main characters, plus an interesting supporting cast...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54112226">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="11871352">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 07 07:49:28 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 07 08:01:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nearly perfect first novel in a series of great detective stories. It's about drugs and phony religions, about murder most fair. The detective team of Grijpstra and De Gier-- the former plodding, pudgy, and easily underestimated, the latter energetic, athletic, handsome, and vain-- are perhaps the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11871352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="974027">
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  <date_added>Tue May 01 14:21:55 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 01 14:25:35 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of 12 I think. I don't know if it's that the author is Dutch, maybe it was written in Dutch and then translated, mayb it was written in English by someone who speaks it as a second language, but one of my favorite aspects of this book and the second in the series (the two I've read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/974027">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="66674620">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bill]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 08 15:03:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 18 01:51:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this thinking man's mystery. It is oriented to team work and community interest. And it is a good story. I intend to read some more. But it is also 70's book so the relations between men and women aren't evolved.]]></body>
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    <review id="57454437">
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  <date_added>Tue May 26 21:00:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 01 19:47:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[what i like the most about this book is it's short ]]></body>
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    <review id="25729076">
    <user id="676194">
    <name><![CDATA[Elena]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Italy]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people interested in athmoshperes   ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 28 01:19:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 28 01:34:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice book. Supposedly a etective story, but I would say the plot is a pretext for the creation of intruiguing characters. A hints of buddhism and a fascinating portrait of 1970s Amsterdam. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25729076]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="23572224">
    <user id="886474">
    <name><![CDATA[Natasha]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Copenhagen, OR, Denmark]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a Dutch detective series. i've only read this one, but i am dying to read the rest. i wish i could read it in the original language - i bet it's even better.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23572224]]></url>
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    <review id="43320362">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 16 21:47:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 01 22:27:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first about 230 pages of this book were great, but the rest was just filler.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43320362]]></url>
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    <review id="30582117">
    <user id="97487">
    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 19 15:13:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 19 15:14:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An enjoyable and satisfying but not scintillating mystery. The wry humor kind of fell flat, IMO. ]]></body>
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    <review id="34321820">
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 01 17:18:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[his series and great an all of the soho crimes I have read I have loved.]]></body>
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    <review id="2530047">
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 29 09:15:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Still reading this one.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 25 08:52:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
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