Chinese Lake Murders
A Judge Dee Detective Story
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2005
Summary
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, th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780060751401 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0060751401 |
| Author: | Robert Van Gulik |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperPerennial |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2005 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 140mm x 207mm |
| Series: | Judge Dee Mysteries |
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“Judge Dee is a Great Detective in the noblest tradition–perceptive, cryptic, wise, arbitrary, ever fascinating.” - New York Times
About The Author
Robert Van Gulik
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.
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