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Nicolas Freeling (1927-2003) was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the highly successful Van der Valk series of detective novels. He has won the Edgar Award, the CWA Gold Dagger and France's Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere.
There can be no doubt Mr Freeling is a genuinely masterful novelist - SUNDAY TIMES Freeling is the only British novelist of consequence to have tackled modern Europe - DAILY TELEGRAPH He was the most thoroughly European of British crime writers - GUARDIAN Elegant style and continually interesting narrative which give his novels their special flavour Freeling's Inspector Van der Valk is less rugged than Rebus, less parsonical than Dalgliesh, more Morse than Frost, and more Maigret than any of them. Marvellous Freeling is a joy to read - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT If you've never heard of Nicolas Freeling you're in for a treat. Read one and you'll want to get all the Freelings - COSMOPOLITAN Freeling writes like no one else - LA TIMES
