Judge Dee at Work
by Gulik, Robert Hans VanEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2007-04-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary
The eight short stories inJudge Dee at Workcover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T'ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion, the cases here are among the most memorable in the Judge Dee series.
Author Biography
Robert van Gulik (1910–67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. His many works include sixteen Judge Dee mysteries, a study of the gibbon in China, and two books on the Chinese lute.
Table of Contents
| Five Auspicious Clouds | |
| The Red Tape Murder | |
| He Came with the Rain | |
| The Murder on the Lotus Pond | |
| The Two Beggars | |
| The Wrong Sword | |
| The Coffins of the Emperor | |
| Murder on New Year's EveColophonJudge Dee Chronology | |
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