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Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1992
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- Title
- The Lacquer Screen: A Chinese Detective Story (Judge Dee Mystery)
- Author
- van Gulik, Robert
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226848671
- ISBN 13
- 9780226848679
- Series
- Book 9 of 12: Judge Dee Mysteries
A fiendishly clever, yet cozy entry in the much-loved mystery series starring Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes
Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate.
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About the Author
Robert van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. His many works include sixteen Judge Dee mysteries, a study of the gibbon in China, and two books on the Chinese lute.
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