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The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story

The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story - Paperback

by Robert Hans Van Gulik, Robert Van Gulik
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Hans Van Gulik, Robert Van GulikPublish date:2013-12-13Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060751401ISBN-10:60751401UPC:9780060751401Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, LiteraryBook Topic:Police Procedural, International Crime & MysterySize:8.16 x 5.50 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCFYY80D79

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060751401ISBN-10:60751401UPC:9780060751401Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, LiteraryBook Topic:Police Procedural, International Crime & MysterySize:8.16 x 5.50 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCFYY80D79
Van Gulik, Robert: -

Robert Van Gulik was born in the Netherlands in 1910. He was educated at the Universities of Leyden and Utrecht, and served in the Dutch diplomatic service in China and Japan for many years. His interest in Asian languages and art led him to the discovery of Chinese detective novels and to the historical character of Judge Dee, famous in ancient Chinese annals as a scholar-magistrate. Van Gulik subsequently began writing the Judge Dee series of novels that have so captivated mystery readers ever since. He died of cancer in 1967.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Robert Hans Van Gulik, Robert Van Gulik

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Robert Hans Van Gulik, Robert Van Gulik

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