MURDER IN CANTON. A Judge Dee Mystery.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Item #98316
ISBN: 0226848744
208pp. With twelve 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. MURDER IN CANTON finds Dee at the height of his professional career; he is called to Canton to secretly investigate a mysterious disappearance, and finds himself entangled in a baffling web of political intrigue and vicious murder.
Price: $5.50