Author: Robert van Gulik
Year: 1962
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Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction
Culture: China
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9780226848679
0226848671 |
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A.D. 663
Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate.
"One of the most satisfyingly devious of the Judge Dee novels, with unusual historical richness in its portrayal of the China of the T'ang dynasty."-—New York Times Book Review
"So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."-—New York Times
This book is part of the "Judge Dee" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Poets and Murder"
First published in 1968
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 | "Judge Dee at Work"
First published in 1967
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 | "The Willow Pattern"
First published in 1965
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 | "Murder in Canton"
First published in 1964
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 | "The Emperor's Pearl"
First published in 1963
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 | "The Red Pavilion"
First published in 1961
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