Murder In Canton A Judge Dee Mystery

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226849058
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Canton written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots. Murder in Canton takes place in the year 680, as Judge Dee, recently promoted to lord chief justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor. With the help of his trusted lieutenants Chiao Tai and Tao Gan, and that of a clever blind girl who collects crickets, Dee solves a complex puzzle of political intrigue and murder through the three separate subplots "the vanished censor," "the Smaragdine dancer," and "the Golden Bell." An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226848631
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1977-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586027783
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Canton written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Van Hans Gulik
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 166763237X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Canton written by Robert Van Hans Gulik and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of his professional career, the master detective of ancient China is called to Canton to secretly investigate a mysterious disappearance, and finds himself entangled in a baffling web of political intrigue and vicious murder.

Author : Robert van
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226849023
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Necklace and Calabash written by Robert van and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots. Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career. An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486233375
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Robert Van Gulik
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060751401
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Lake Murders written by Robert Van Gulik and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226849074
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Pearl written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226848624
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Bell Murders written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1977-11-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.

Author : Robert van Gulik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226848679
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lacquer Screen written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-12-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.