Double-Barrel (2013)
“In a sense I was going to prowl. It was perfectly true that it is a good idea to have some proof before blowing the whistle. I hadn’t any proof but I was pretty sure there would be plenty found under a search warrant. I didn’t have to prowl.
Van der Valk has been told several times that he decorates things too much. True enough, I suppose. I am a creature of drama, and I like doing ridiculous dramatic things. It wouldn’t do any harm to prowl, though I felt quite sure now of my bird.
I wanted to... walk about and meditate too. I wanted open air and movement. This was a good excuse.
The weather was not encouraging. The snow had not lain after all; it had started thawing this afternoon. Now it was freezing again, with a thin mist, a vicious sharp wind that had backed into the north, and half-melted snow and ice blackened and rotting. I wasn’t going out at night in that, not in my shiny-pants bureaucrat’s suit.
I put on shapeless corduroy trousers, a high-necked sweater and a padded anorak.MoreLess
Van der Valk has been told several times that he decorates things too much. True enough, I suppose. I am a creature of drama, and I like doing ridiculous dramatic things. It wouldn’t do any harm to prowl, though I felt quite sure now of my bird.
I wanted to... walk about and meditate too. I wanted open air and movement. This was a good excuse.
The weather was not encouraging. The snow had not lain after all; it had started thawing this afternoon. Now it was freezing again, with a thin mist, a vicious sharp wind that had backed into the north, and half-melted snow and ice blackened and rotting. I wasn’t going out at night in that, not in my shiny-pants bureaucrat’s suit.
I put on shapeless corduroy trousers, a high-necked sweater and a padded anorak.MoreLess
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