Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
The Chinese Nail Murders
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
The Chinese Lake Murders
Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060751401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the third installment of Robert Van Gulik's classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for him. Set in 666 A.D., in the hidden city of Han-yuan, sixty miles from the imperial capital of ancient China, Dee is sent to investigate a case of embezzlement of government funds. But things are about to get more complicated for the great detective. Just before he is about to take leave of Han-yuan, the popular courtesan Almond Blossom disappears, and then a bride who dies on her wedding night also disappears from her coffin -- her body replaced with that of a murdered man. To make matters worse, Judge Dee is confronted with the dangerous sect called the White Lotus.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060751401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the third installment of Robert Van Gulik's classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for him. Set in 666 A.D., in the hidden city of Han-yuan, sixty miles from the imperial capital of ancient China, Dee is sent to investigate a case of embezzlement of government funds. But things are about to get more complicated for the great detective. Just before he is about to take leave of Han-yuan, the popular courtesan Almond Blossom disappears, and then a bride who dies on her wedding night also disappears from her coffin -- her body replaced with that of a murdered man. To make matters worse, Judge Dee is confronted with the dangerous sect called the White Lotus.
The Chinese Bell Murders
Author: Robert van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
The Chinese Bell Murders
Author: Robert Van Gulik
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Dee Goong An (Three Murder Cases Solved)
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Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667681702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
First published in the eighteenth century, Dee Goong An chronicles three of Judge Dee's celebrated cases, woven together into a novel. A double murder among merchants, the fatal poisoning of a new bride, and an unsolved murder in a small town — these crimes launch Judge Dee down the great silk routes and even into graveyards to consult the spirits of the dead. With his keen analytical wit, can he discover the killers? First of the Judge Dee books, translated by Robert van Gulik.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667681702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
First published in the eighteenth century, Dee Goong An chronicles three of Judge Dee's celebrated cases, woven together into a novel. A double murder among merchants, the fatal poisoning of a new bride, and an unsolved murder in a small town — these crimes launch Judge Dee down the great silk routes and even into graveyards to consult the spirits of the dead. With his keen analytical wit, can he discover the killers? First of the Judge Dee books, translated by Robert van Gulik.
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486233375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Tells of a celebrated seventh-century Chinese magistrate's investigation of a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and a murder in a small town
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486233375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Tells of a celebrated seventh-century Chinese magistrate's investigation of a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and a murder in a small town
Poets and Murder
Author: Robert van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly tranquil landscape of academic life. A student has been murdered; a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death; and further mysteries lie in the shadows of the Shrine of the Black Fox.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly tranquil landscape of academic life. A student has been murdered; a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death; and further mysteries lie in the shadows of the Shrine of the Black Fox.
The Red Pavilion
Author: Robert van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226849066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226849066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.
The Chinese Bell Murders
Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060728885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Meet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the "Sherlock Holmes of ancient China" Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in Robert van Gulik's classic Chinese Murders series. The Chinese Bell Murders introduces the great Judge Dee, a magistrate of the city of Poo-yang in ancient China. In the spirit of ancient Chinese detective novels, Judge Dee is challenged by three cases. First, he must solve the mysterious murder of Pure Jade, a young girl living on Half Moon Street. All the evidence points to the guilt of her lover, but Judge Dee has his doubts. Dee also solves the mystery of a deserted temple and that of a group of monks' terrific success with a cure for barren women.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060728885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Meet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the "Sherlock Holmes of ancient China" Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in Robert van Gulik's classic Chinese Murders series. The Chinese Bell Murders introduces the great Judge Dee, a magistrate of the city of Poo-yang in ancient China. In the spirit of ancient Chinese detective novels, Judge Dee is challenged by three cases. First, he must solve the mysterious murder of Pure Jade, a young girl living on Half Moon Street. All the evidence points to the guilt of her lover, but Judge Dee has his doubts. Dee also solves the mystery of a deserted temple and that of a group of monks' terrific success with a cure for barren women.
Necklace and Calabash
Author: Robert van
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226849023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots. Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career. An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226849023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots. Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career. An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.