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The Chinese Nail Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story

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

by Robert Van Gulik
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Van GulikPublish date:2005-02-15Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060751395ISBN-10:60751398UPC:9780060751395Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, LiteraryBook Topic:Police Procedural, International Crime & MysterySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCVP50ZZ2X

The ancient Chinese detective Judge Dee returns for a fourth and final time in The Chinese Nail Murders. Though the setting is exotic and the time period ancient, Judge Dee has all the style and swagger of a modern Sherlock Holmes.

Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow--a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels, the disappearance of a girl in love, and the fiendish murder involving the nude, headless body of a woman. And even more curious, the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period, the Seven Board.

First published in the 1950s, The Chinese Nail Murders includes charming illustrations and an epilogue that details the origins of each case and how the author discovered them.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060751395ISBN-10:60751398UPC:9780060751395Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, LiteraryBook Topic:Police Procedural, International Crime & MysterySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCVP50ZZ2X
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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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