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Showing 1 - 12 of 28 results for “robert van gulik”
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  • The Chinese Maze Murders

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    The legendary T'ang Dynasty judge untangles three intertwined cases in the "entertaining" historical detective series ( Times Literary Supplement).Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor's garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries. The Chinese ... Read more

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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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  • 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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  • The Red Pavilion

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    Set during the Tang Dynasty, this historical mystery features Chinese detective Judge Dee as he investigates a locked room mystery involving a prostitute.A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads magistrate Judge Dee to investigate the murder of a man who spent his last week alive with the infamous prostitute. When the lady herself is murdered, the ... Read more

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  • 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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  • 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 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

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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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  • 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

  • Murder in Ancient China

    Two Judge Dee Mysteries

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    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, the Judge steps in to investigate homicide, theft, and treason and restores order to the golden age of the Tang Dynasty. In Murder in ... 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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  • 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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