Baantjer, Appie 

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• Baantjer, Appie 
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Dutch author, born on September 16, 1923 in Urk and died on August 29, 2010 in Alkmaar. He worked for a number of years with the Amsterdam police. In the early 1960s he invented the character "De Cock", based on 2 of his colleagues. In 1963 the first book in the series was published under the title "De Cock en a strop voor Bobby". In total, 7O books would appear in the series. They were sold in several languages and a TV series was made with "Piet Römer" as "De Cock".

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