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The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders

Two Chinese Detective Novels, with 27 Illustrations by the Author

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders

Two Chinese Detective Novels, with 27 Illustrations by the Author

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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.

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0486235025

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9780486235028

The Chinese Gold Murders

By: Robert Hans Van Gulik

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The Chinese Gold Murders

By: Robert Hans Van Gulik

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

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University Of Chicago Press

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0226848647

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9780226848648

The Emperor's Pearl

A Chinese Detective Story

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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The Emperor's Pearl

A Chinese Detective Story

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

Judge Dee, a seventh century Chinese magistrate, investigates a murder that seems connected with the long unsolved theft of a fabulous pearl

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Macmillan Publishing Company

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0684173182

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9780684173184

The Chinese Bell Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story

By: Robert Van Gulik

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The Chinese Bell Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story

By: Robert Van Gulik

Meet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the "Sherlock Holmes of ancient China" Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in Robert van Gulik's classic Chinese Murders series. The Chinese Bell Murders introduces the great Judge Dee, a magistrate of the city of Poo-yang in ancient China. In the spirit of ancient Chinese detective novels, Judge Dee is challenged by three cases. First, he must solve the mysterious murder of Pure Jade, a young girl living on Half Moon Street. All the evidence points to the guilt of her lover, but Judge Dee has his doubts. Dee also solves the mystery of a deserted temple and that of a group of monks' terrific success with a cure for barren women.

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Harper Perennial

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0060728884

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9780060728885

The Chinese Lake Murders

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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The Chinese Lake Murders

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

While investigating a murder in the mysterious, isolated town of Hanyuan, Judge Dee--judicial magistrate and respected detective in seventhcentury China--becomes involved in the world of political intrigue

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0226848655

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9780226848655

The Haunted Monastery

A Judge Dee Mystery

By: Robert van Gulik

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The Haunted Monastery

A Judge Dee Mystery

By: Robert van Gulik

Judge 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 calls it murder. Recalling the allegedly accidental deaths of three young women in the same monastery, Judge Dee seeks clues in the eyes of a cat to solve cases of impersonation and murder. A painting by one of the victims reveals the truth about the killings, propelling the judge on a quest for justice and revenge. "Entertaining, instructive, and impressive."—Times Literary Supplement

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University of Chicago Press

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0226849082

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9780226849089

The Monkey and The Tiger

By: Robert van Gulik

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The Monkey and The Tiger

By: Robert van Gulik

The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger." In the first, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee's official residence, leading the judge to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woods—and how it got there. In the second, Dee is traveling to the imperial capital to assume a new position when he is separated from his escort by a flood. Marooned in a large country house surrounded by fierce bandits, Dee confronts an apparition that helps him solve a mystery.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226849015

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9780226849010

The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders

Two Chinese Detective Novels, with 27 Illustrations by the Author

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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Two Chinese Detective Novels, with 27 Illustrations by the Author

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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The Chinese Nail Murders

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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The Chinese Nail Murders

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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

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University of Chicago Press

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0226848639

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9780226848631

Necklace and Calabash

A Chinese Detective Story

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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Necklace and Calabash

A Chinese Detective Story

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

Judge Dee Jen-Djieh wants to relax for a while, but at his vacation spot, a princess requests that he find her stolen necklace.

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0226848701

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9780226848709

Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

An Authentic Eighteenth-century Chinese Detective Novel

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

An Authentic Eighteenth-century Chinese Detective Novel

By: Robert Hans van Gulik

Tells of a celebrated seventh-century Chinese magistrate's investigation of a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and a murder in a small town

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0486233375

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9780486233376

The Chinese Nail Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story

By: Robert Van Gulik

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The Chinese Nail Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story

By: Robert Van Gulik

In the fourth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective 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. "A delight to the connoisseur" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Chinese Nail Murders was first published in the 1950s. Timeless and exotic, it is now reissued by Perennial and includes charming illustrations and an epilogue that details the origins of each case and how the author discovered them.

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Harper Collins

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0060751398

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9780060751395

The Chinese Gold Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story

By: Robert Van Gulik

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The Chinese Gold Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story

By: Robert Van Gulik

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.

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0060728671

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9780060728670

The Chinese Lake Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story

By: Robert Van Gulik

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The Chinese Lake Murders

A Judge Dee Detective Story

By: Robert Van Gulik

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.

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0060751401

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The Lacquer Screen

A Judge Dee Mystery

By: Robert van Gulik

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The Lacquer Screen

A Judge Dee Mystery

By: Robert van Gulik

Early 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 losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate. "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."---New York Times Book Review "Even Judge Dee is baffled by Robert van Gulik's new mysteries in The Lacquer Screen. Disguised as a petty crook, he spends a couple of precarious days in the headquarters of the underworld, hobnobbing with the robber king. Dee's lively thieving friends furnish some vital clues to this strange and fascinating jigsaw."---The Spectator "So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."---New York Times Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.

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Scribner Book Company

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0684176335

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9780684176338

The Chinese Nail Murders

By: Robert H. Van Gulik

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The Chinese Nail Murders

By: Robert H. Van Gulik

The last of the Judge Dee series. Judge Dee is a 7th century magistrate/detective who always has three crimes to solve. In the first, a headless body is found; in the second, a poisoning occurs; and finally a cotton-maker is killed.

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Orbit Books

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0747401764

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9780747401766

The Emperor's Pearl

A Judge Dee Mystery

By: Robert van Gulik

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The Emperor's Pearl

A Judge Dee Mystery

By: Robert van Gulik

It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat 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 magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—steps in to investigate the murders and return order to the Tang Dynasty. In The Emperor’s Pearl, the judge discovers that these two deaths are connected by an ancient tragedy involving a near-legendary treasure stolen from the Imperial Harem one hundred years earlier. The terrifying figure of the White Lady, a river goddess enshrined on a bloodstained altar, looms in the background of the investigation. Clues are few and elusive, but under the expert hand of Robert van Gulik, this mythic jigsaw puzzle assembles itself into a taut mystery. “If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee and his faithful Sgt. Hoong, I envy you that initial pleasure which comes from the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes.”—Robert Kirsch, Los AngelesTimes “The title of this book and the book itself have much in common. Each is a jewel, a rare and precious find.”—AtlantaTimes

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University of Chicago Press

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0226849074

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9780226849072

The Phantom of the Temple

A Judge Dee Mystery

By: Robert van Gulik

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The Phantom of the Temple

A Judge Dee Mystery

By: Robert van Gulik

Judge Dee presided over his imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near mythic figure in China, he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his exploits were celebrated in Chinese folklore, and later immortalized by Robert van Gulik in his electrifying mysteries. In The Phantom of the Temple, three separate puzzles—the disappearance of a wealthy merchant's daughter, twenty missing bars of gold, and a decapitated corpse—are pieced together by the clever judge to solve three murders and one complex, gruesome plot. “Judge Dee belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes. I assure you it is a compliment not given frivolously.”—Robert Kirsch, Los AngelesTimes Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.

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