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If anyone can help him, it would be his old student friends Joep and Tom. Joep, a politician who is slated to become the next
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instead hears he must return the paintings: in any case the eight paintings by Van Goppel (who died recently) which all of a sudden have become worth a lot of money. This produces a major problem, because Pieter has sold four of the Van
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