Read De moord bij den hertenkamp in Dutchwith every sentence explained

De moord bij den hertenkamp by C. Joh. Kieviet was first published in 1930. In Passage you read the full text in the original Dutch, marked intermediate and filed under mystery and crime and young adult. It runs to about 73,100 words.

A ruined father, a daughter's sacrifice, and a deadly Christmas Eve in the snow.

Factory owner Cortema stands on the edge of bankruptcy: the bank has given him eight days. His only daughter, Thilde, is about to become engaged to Leo, the hot-tempered young lawyer she loves. But a very rich and very disagreeable man, Mr Banders, has just bought the grand Berkenheuvel estate near Wassenaar, complete with a brand-new deer park — and he has set his sights on Thilde.

To save her parents, Thilde makes a choice that breaks her heart, and her new life soon turns cold and bitter. Then, on a stormy Christmas Eve, as snow sweeps through the woods of Wassenaar, a dagger strikes near the deer park. Detective Heykamp must discover who had reason enough to kill.

C. Joh. Kieviet, beloved author of the Dik Trom books, wrote The Murder by the Deer Park (1930) as a classic Dutch whodunit.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Dutch. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday Dutch feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.