In Search of Lost Crime

Murder on New Year's Eve: the Death of Jacques Wijsman (part 1 of 3)


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New Year's Eve 1921 At Hollandspoor Station in The Hague, the train from Amsterdam has just arrived. A passenger about to board the first-class compartment sees a body on the floor. In a pool of blood....

The murder of this prominent Dutch lawyer was never solved and would keep Dutch society riveted to their newspapers for years. Was it a robbery gone wrong? A suicide? Or was it something to do with... the Dutch Royal family...?

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In Search of Lost CrimeBy Liz Luyben