Het Misdaadmuseum
book by Henk Kuijpers
Het Misdaadmuseum (The Criminology Museum) is a Dutch comic by Henk Kuijpers published in 1978. It was previously serialised in comic weekly Pep in 1974. One of the supporting-characters, Franka, went on to become the protagonist of the eponymously-titled comic.
Storyline
The opening sequence chronicles a burglary and the prosecution of the offenders. The pieces of evidence are handed over to the Criminology Museum (a group of crime-experts who are not criminals), just at that moment, a job applicant (the bearded Jarko Jansen) arrives. He meets the staff (Franka in particular) and gets the job. Jarko solves his first case in cooperation with Officer Noordenwind by subjecting the victim to a lie-test, using the number of scratches in a vinyl record.
Back at work, the Museum receives a visit from Oscar Buhne, who wants to discuss the script for a crime-movie. Franka, who works as a secretary, asks if anyone fancies a cup of coffee and notes that Professor Philip Factotum has got a visitor. While Jarko checks the script, Franka goes round to have a talk with Frikko Falegier, who wants to sell a crossbow once used to kill Robin Hood.
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The phrase “book by Henk Kuijpers” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2251283. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 1974.
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