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A Judge Dee mystery. Imperial China, T'ang dynasty, 7th century A.D. W/maps and illustrations. Tight, bright , clean & square. 2 tiny corner creases.
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"The Chinese Bell Murders" describes the Judge's exploits in the tribunal of Poo-yang early in his career. He has one case left over from his predecessor the brutal rape-murder of Pure Jade, the daughter of Butcher Hsai who lived on Half Moon Street. Her lover has been accused and is on the verge of being convicted, but Judge Dee senses that all is not right and sets out with his lieutenants to find the real murderer.
"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."
Title: The Chinese Bell Murders
ISBN Number: 0226848620
ISBN-13: 9780226848624
Location Published: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press: 1977
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: NEAR FINE
lb: 0.80 lbs
Categories: historical
Seller ID: 4DP021
Keywords: vintage paperback
The Chinese Bell Murders