The sergeant's cat and other stories

A collection of detective stories featuring Detective Adjutant Grijpstra and his assistant, Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam homicide bureau. Murder in Holland has its own twists, including death by chocolate Easter bunny, and a range of villains - one of whom is dastardly enough to threaten de Gier's beloved Siamese cat. The atmosphere is firmly 1980's, with bell bottom trousers and jokes about Women's Lib, but the puzzles are clever and the writing is witty and wry.