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Freeling got bored with writing about his Amsterdam detective Van der Valk and killed him off in 1972, when the character was shot while following up a rather unpromising lead. Freeling refused to bring the detective back to life and wrote two novels in which his widow Arlette is the detective.
The television series was based on the characters and atmosphere, but not the plots, of the original novels. The stories mostly take place in and around Amsterdam, where Commissaris van der Valk is a cynical yet intuitive detective. Drugs, sex and murder are among the gritty themes of the casework, presented in contrast to the picturesque ...
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The first steps in this new direction included a series of management changes that placed experienced executives from the world of television at the helm of the company. At the end of the month, the company purchased the literacy estate of Nicolas Freeling. [20] On 4 December 2002, Chief Executive Nick Tamblyn announced his immediate ...
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Commissaris Simon 'Piet' Van der Valk – Nicolas Freeling (played by Wolfgang Kieling 1968 TV Movie, Barry Foster from 1972 to 1992 in Van der Valk, and by Marc Warren 2020 to present in the reboot Van der Valk) DCI Van Veeteren – Håkan Nesser; Detective Van Zwam from the comics series The Adventures of Nero
Amsterdam Affair is a 1968 British crime film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Wolfgang Kieling, William Marlowe, Catherine Schell and Pamela Ann Davy.The plot is about Dutch policeman Van Der Valk, who investigates a novelist who is accused of murdering his mistress. [1]
Van der Valk was a 1972 British TV series based on a character created by British author Nicolas Freeling Van der Valk, Van der Valck, Vandervalk or De Valk may also refer to: Van der Valk (2020 TV series), a British remake of the 1972 series; The Dutch Van der Valk hospitality chain