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 Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486235025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In 'The Haunted Monastery', Judge Dee and his wives seek refuge from a violent mountain storm and are plunged into a bizarre series of interrelated crimes. Three women have been murdered in the monastery; Dee has seen something impossible, perhaps supernatural, and inexplicable events flash forth in the dark tangle of corridors and the Taoist Hell - a hall filled with statuary showing realistically the torments of Hell.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486235025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In 'The Haunted Monastery', Judge Dee and his wives seek refuge from a violent mountain storm and are plunged into a bizarre series of interrelated crimes. Three women have been murdered in the monastery; Dee has seen something impossible, perhaps supernatural, and inexplicable events flash forth in the dark tangle of corridors and the Taoist Hell - a hall filled with statuary showing realistically the torments of Hell.
Dee Goong An (Three Murder Cases Solved)
Author:
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 Chinese Gold Murders
Author: Robert Hans Van Gulik
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A series of bizarre and intriguing murders greet young Judge Dee when he accepts the post of magistrate of Peng-lai, a port city on the northeast coast of Shantung Province in seventh-century Imperial China
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A series of bizarre and intriguing murders greet young Judge Dee when he accepts the post of magistrate of Peng-lai, a port city on the northeast coast of Shantung Province in seventh-century Imperial China
Poets and Murder: a Chinese Detective Story
Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789180008617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789180008617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Chinese Nail Murders
Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060751398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the fourth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow -- a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels, the disappearance of a girl in love, and the fiendish murder involving the nude, headless body of a woman. And even more curious, the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period, the Seven Board. "A delight to the connoisseur" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Chinese Nail Murders was first published in the 1950s. Timeless and exotic, it is now reissued by Perennial and includes charming illustrations and an epilogue that details the origins of each case and how the author discovered them.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060751398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the fourth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow -- a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels, the disappearance of a girl in love, and the fiendish murder involving the nude, headless body of a woman. And even more curious, the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period, the Seven Board. "A delight to the connoisseur" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Chinese Nail Murders was first published in the 1950s. Timeless and exotic, it is now reissued by Perennial and includes charming illustrations and an epilogue that details the origins of each case and how the author discovered them.
The Chinese Nail Murders
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description