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The Chinese Lake Murders (Judge Dee Mysteries)

Author Robert van Gulik
Publisher University of Chicago Press
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ISBN / ASIN0226848655
ISBN-139780226848655
Sales Rank1,049,933
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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The Chinese Lake Murders describes how Judge Dee solves three difficult cases in A.D. 666, shortly after he has been appointed magistrate of Han-yuan.

"[Robert van Gulik] deftly interweaves three criminal cases involving exotic yet universally recognizable characters, then has his Judge Dee provide a surprising yet most plausible solution."--New York Times Book Review

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.