THE RED PAVILION. A Judge Dee Mystery.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. Cloth in dust clipped jacket. Light shelfwear. Very Good.
Item #118845
175pp. With 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 THE RED PAVILION, a chance encounter with a powerful courtesan leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is sadeened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world 'of flowers and willows; that thrives on prostitution.
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