one reason might be explained in the essay he wrote about
killing off Van der Valk. Freeling no longer lived in
Amsterdam-- he could not "smell and feel" the atmosphere, and
he was afraid that Van der Valk would become a cardboard
character. A short story might not be as demanding, then, as
a novel.
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