Title: not if you own "The Sergeant's Cat" & "Mangrove Mama"!
Product review: The star rating is an anomaly; of course most of the stories are good. But they have, with only 3 exceptions, *already been published* in the books "The Sergeant's Cat" and "Mangrove Mama". If you already have these books, unless you're a truly rabid afficionado, don't bother with this one. Why? The remaining 3 are not very good stories, rating only 1 star.If you're new to Van de Wetering, you shouldn't start here anyway. Buy "Outsider in Amsterdam" (5 stars) instead.(Note: this review is "for the hardcover version only", because only hardcover buyers could have purchased Mangrove Mama, and only vdW. lovers would own The Sergeant's Cat (1987, out of print).)
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