The Chinese Nail Murders

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 Van Gulik
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060751398
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Van Gulik and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert H. Van Gulik
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9780747401766
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert H. Van Gulik and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Author : Robert Van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Hans van Gulik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486235025
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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