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Freeling, Nicolas

Entry updated 29 July 2023. Tagged: Author.

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Working name of UK author born Diamond Arthur Sigurd Partridge (1927-2003) but known for most of his life as Nicolas Davidson (under which name he married) or Nicolas Freeling; long resident in Europe. He is best known for the Van der Valk detective series, featuring Piet Van der Valk, Commissaris in the Amsterdam police; this character appeared in most of Freeling's earlier novels, though not in Gadget (1977), in which an abducted physicist is persuaded by his abductors to construct an atomic bomb; this tale segues into the Near Future. [JC]

Diamond Arthur Sigurd Partridge

born London: 3 March 1927

died Mutzig, Bas-Rhine, France: 20 July 2003

works

  • Gadget (London: Heinemann, 1977) [hb/nonpictorial]

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