From Publishers Weekly
Detective-Inspector DeKok's latest case begins with the delivery of a death announcement for Frederik Johannes Dinterloo with a message on the back: ``to meet the next victim, . . . attend the funeral.'' DeKok and his partner, Dick Vledder, note nothing odd at Dinterloo's funeral, but when leaving they find on their car an ad for a Casa Erotica, a sex theater, with the words, ``Ask for the Naked Lady.'' Vledder learns that Dinterloo was a brilliant young professor who left academia for an oil company and who later died in an apparent car accident. Dinterloo was a regular at his firm's parties at Casa Erotica's private rooms--he left one only two days before his death with a dancer named Sylvie Rebergen. DeKok finds Rebergen dead of a blow to the head, her eyes mutilated, the eighth victim of a serial killer who has been targeting divorced women. The translation could use more polish, and readers lacking DeKok's ability to ``think around corners'' may not spot the villain with the clues supplied, but Baantjer ( DeKok and the Dancing Death ) spins his usual entertaining yarn and fans will be inclined to forgive. Author tour.
Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
This is the twelfth book about DeKok and his assistant, Vledder. This time it also means an even dozen murders. The victims of a systematic murderer are all killed in the same, horrible way. But that is only the beginning of the puzzle. It starts on a sunny morning. A child delivers a death announcement to DeKok. "At the request of the deceased, no crocuses, or other flowers". DeKok and Vledder find a card under the windshield wiper of their car: "Ask for the naked lady..". Karate, divorces, sex theaters, crocuses and serial killings. In this labyrinth of facts, where witnesses contradict each other, only DeKok knows the exit.
