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Showing 1 - 12 of 29 results for “robert van gulik”
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  • The Haunted Monastery

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    "The magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in the select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesJudge Dee and his entourage, seeking refuge from a mountain storm, become trapped in a Taoist monastery, where the Abbott Jade mysteriously dies after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Poets and Murder

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    Judge Dee, master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath academia.A mild-mannered student is rumored to have been slain by a fox-demon, while a young dancer meets her death as she dresses to perform for the magistrate's illustrious dinner guests—an obese Zen monk revered for his calligraphy, a beautiful poetess ... Read more

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  • Dee Goong An: Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    This book, written in the eighteenth century by a person well versed in the Chinese legal code, chronicles three of Judge Dee's most celebrated cases, interwoven to form a novel. A double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, an unsolved murder in a small town under Judge Dee's jurisdiction—these are the crimes. They take Judge Dee up and down the ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Chinese Gold Murder, The

    by Robert Hans van Gulik ...
    Narrated by Catherine Alexandra Sutherland ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Beauty of Sound

    Unabridged

    2 hours 42 min

    During the Emperor Yonghui’s reign in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Judge Dee was appointed as a local governor in Penglai Township and the first thing he did after the appointment was that he successfully uncovered the truth behind the mysterious death of his predecessor. Soon after Judge Dee and his family members arrived in Penglai, they were notified that the ghost of predecessor was still ... Read more

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  • The Lacquer Screen

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    "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." — The New York Times Book ReviewEarly 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 ... Read more

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  • The Monkey and The Tiger

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    Two mysteries set in seventh-century China featuring Judge Dee, "a great detective in the noblest tradition . . . perceptive [and] ever fascinating."— The New York TimesThe Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger," based on a real-life judge in T'ang Dynasty China who became legendary for his crime-solving skills. In the first ... Read more

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  • The Phantom of the Temple

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    Based a historical figure, Judge Dee must solve the puzzle of a missing person, a robbery and a murder in this mystery set in Tang Dynasty China.Judge Dee presided over his imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near mythic figure in China, he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his exploits ... Read more

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  • Murder in Ancient China

    Two Judge Dee Mysteries

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    Two short mysteries—"The Murder on the Lotus Pond" and "Murder on New Year's Eve"—featuring seventh-century Chinese detective Judge Dee.Judge Dee—Confucian Imperial magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger, based on a famous statesman—was Dutch diplomat and Chinese cultural historian Robert van Gulik's (1910–67) lasting invention. A welcome addition to the elite canon of fictional detectives, ... Read more

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  • The Emperor's Pearl

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    "A rare and precious find," this mystery set in Tang Dynasty China features a detective based on a historical magistrate as he investigates a double murder ( Atlanta Times).It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragon boat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion. There, Judge Dee—tribunal ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Willow Pattern

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    A magistrate investigates the death of a nobleman in this historical mystery set in China's Tang Dynasty era.Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague and drought ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion.In The Willow Pattern, the illustrious ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Murder in Canton

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    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 ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Judge Dee at Work

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    "A pleasing collection of short stories about Chinese detective Judge Dee—an actual historical personage of the T'ang Dynasty."— Kirkus ReviewsA Dutch scholar, linguist, and diplomat who grew up immersed in Asian culture, Robert van Gulik discovered and translated an eighteenth-century Chinese crime novel he'd found in an antiquarian bookstore. Its success led him to write multiple mysteries ... Read more

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