POETS AND MURDER: A Chinese Detective Story.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968 [1972]. 1st American Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very Good.
Item #105760
ISBN: 0684125609
174pp. With 8 illustrations in period style by the author, plus his postscript. Van Gulik, a Dutch diplomat and authority on Chinese history and culture, drew the plots from his stories from the body of Chinese literature, especially from popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century. Each Judge Dee mystery features original Chinese plots, rewritten to form one continuous story, featuring master detective Judge Dee, one of the most famous master detectives who lived in the T'ang Dynasty of the seventh century A.D. In POETS AND MURDER, Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder in the literary world - and discovers that complex passions lurk beneath the placid surface of academic life.
Price: $35.00