The Chinese Gold Murders

Author: Robert Hans Van Gulik
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
A series of bizarre and intriguing murders greet young Judge Dee when he accepts the post of magistrate of Peng-lai, a port city on the northeast coast of Shantung Province in seventh-century Imperial China

The Chinese Nail Murders

Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226848631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.

The Chinese Lake Murders

Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060751401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
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.

The Chinese Gold Murders

Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060728671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
In this, the second book in Robert van Gulik's classic mystery series of ancient China, Judge Dee must look into the murder of his predecessor. His job is complicated by the simultaneous disappearance of his chief clerk and the new bride of a wealthy local shipowner. Meanwhile, a tiger is terrorizing the district, the ghost of the murdered magistrate stalks the tribunal, a prostitute has a secret message for Dee, and the body of a murdered monk is discovered to be in the wrong grave. In the end, the judge, with his deft powers of deduction, uncovers the one cause for all of these seemingly unrelated events.

The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders

Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486235025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
In 'The Haunted Monastery', Judge Dee and his wives seek refuge from a violent mountain storm and are plunged into a bizarre series of interrelated crimes. Three women have been murdered in the monastery; Dee has seen something impossible, perhaps supernatural, and inexplicable events flash forth in the dark tangle of corridors and the Taoist Hell - a hall filled with statuary showing realistically the torments of Hell.

Dee Goong An (Three Murder Cases Solved)

Author:
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667681702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
First published in the eighteenth century, Dee Goong An chronicles three of Judge Dee's celebrated cases, woven together into a novel. A double murder among merchants, the fatal poisoning of a new bride, and an unsolved murder in a small town — these crimes launch Judge Dee down the great silk routes and even into graveyards to consult the spirits of the dead. With his keen analytical wit, can he discover the killers? First of the Judge Dee books, translated by Robert van Gulik.

Massacred for Gold

Author: R. Gregory Nokes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Provides an account of the massacre of over thirty Chinese gold miners on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, a crime that has remained unsolved since 1887, and provides evidence that indicates the killers were a gang of seven rustlers and schoolboys who were never prosecuted for the murders.

The Chinese Gold Murders

Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1802066373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man... Most people would refuse the job of Magistrate at the lonely port town of Peng-lai – especially as the last occupant of the post has been found poisoned in his library, his papers missing. But Judge Dee is not most men. He arrives ready to get to the truth, only to find his life complicated even further by a missing bride, a vanished artisan, a man-eating tiger and an evil conspiracy.

The Chinese Gold Murders

Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Soon after taking up his first magisterial post in the godforsaken district of Peng-lai, Judge Dee must look into the murder of his predecessor. His job is complicated by the simultaneous disappearnce of his chief clerk and the new bride of a wealthy local shipowner. "The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik's skilled hands, comes vividly alive again."--Allen J. Hubin, New York Times Book Review "If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee, I envy you that initial pleasure . . . the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yan belongs in that select group headed by Sherlock Holmes."--Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Robert van Gulik (1910-67), a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture, drew his plots from the popular detective novels that appeared in seventeenth-century China.

The Chinese Gold Murders

Author: Gulik, Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: Calypso Press Limited
ISBN: 9781876725044
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Pen-Lai District, North East China, AD 663. Newly arrived from the Imperial Capital to take up his first post as Magistrate, Judge Dee is at once confronted with three eerie and baffling mysteries which test his analytical and deductive powers to the limit, drawing him along a trail of blood leading to a criminal of boundless ambition -- and to a plot which will rock the vast bureaucracy of the mighty T'ang Empire!