Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Dete...
Robert Hans Van GulikBrought 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 historica...
The Haunted Monastery: A Judge Dee My...
Robert Hans Van GulikPJudge 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 th...
Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Dete...
Robert Hans Van GulikThe eight short stories in IJudge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T'ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in ...
Poets and Murder: A Judge Dee Mystery...
Robert Hans Van GulikJudge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath the placid surface of academic life. A mild-mannered student is rumored to have been s...
Murder in Canton: A Judge Dee Mystery...
Robert Hans Van Gulikrought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.BRBRWritten by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and histor...
The Phantom of the Temple: A Judge De...
Robert Hans Van GulikJudge 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, accou...
The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detecti...
Robert Hans Van GulikIf 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...
The Chinese Lake Murders: A Judge Dee...
Robert Hans Van GulikIn 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 ...
The Emperor's Pearl: A Judge Dee Myst...
Robert Hans Van GulikIt 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...