Celebrated cases of Judge Dee = Dee goong an : an authentic eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel
1976
Books, Manuscripts
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. Lone of the most celebrated historical magistrates was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century A.D. This book, written in the eighteenth century by a person well versed in the Chinese legal code, chronicles three of Judge Dee's most celebrated cases, interwoven to form a novel. A double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, an unsolved murder in a small town under Judge Dee's jurisdiction - these are the crimes. They take Judge Dee up and down the great silk routes, through clever disguises, into ancient graveyards where he consults the spirits of the dead, and through some clever deduction.
Main title:
Celebrated cases of Judge Dee = Dee goong an : an authentic eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel / translated and with an introd. and notes by Robert van Gulik.
Edition:
Unabridged, slightly corr. version.
Imprint:
New York : Dover Publications, 1976.
Collation:
xxiii, 237 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Bibliography: p. 229-232.
ISBN:
9780486233376
Dewey class:
895.134
LC class:
PZ3.W953PL2699
Language:
EnglishChinese
Subject:
BRN:
2728059
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