JUDGE DEE PLAYS HIS LUTE : A Play and Selected Mystery Stories by Van de Wetering, Janwillem - 1997

Bar Harbor: Wonderly, 1997. First Edition. hardcover. New in a new Dust Jacket. Originally priced at $23.00. The creator of Amsterdam cops Grijpstra and de Gier and Japanese Inspector Saito has been called "a superlative mystery writer" by Time. He has attracted countless fans around the world with his unique blend of urban and rural detection with just a dash of Zen. In Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories, van de Wetering has selected an interesting and diverse group of nine stories and a play. Four stories feature members of the Amsterdam "Murder Brigade." "The Flower Print Murder" is a tale of buried sexual obsession set along the rural Maine coast. "Happy Hermits" chronicles the last days of a retired swindler at a wildlife sanctuary in the Florida Keys. "Off Season" and "Inspector Saito and the Twenty-Sen Stamp" are two very different stories set in Japan. "Judge Dee Plays His Lute" is a radio play, produced originally in Germany, about strange goings on at… Read More

Bar Harbor: Wonderly, 1997. First Edition. hardcover. New in a new Dust Jacket. Originallly priced at $23.00. The creator of Amsterdam cops Grijpstra and de Gier and Japanese Inspector Saito has been called "a superlative mystery writer" by Time. He has attracted countless fans around the world with his unique blend of urban and rural detection with just a dash of Zen. In Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories, van de Wetering has selected an interesting and diverse group of nine stories and a play. Four stories feature members of the Amsterdam "Murder Brigade." "The Flower Print Murder" is a tale of buried sexual obsession set along the rural Maine coast. "Happy Hermits" chronicles the last days of a retired swindler at a wildlife sanctuary in the Florida Keys. "Off Season" and "Inspector Saito and the Twenty-Sen Stamp" are two very different stories set in Japan. "Judge Dee Plays His Lute" is a radio play, produced originally in Germany, about strange goings on at… Read More

Bar Harbor: Wonderly, 1997. FIrst Edition. hardcover. New in a new Dust Jacket. First edition, 1st printing.

Bar Harbor, ME: Wonderly Press, 1997. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear; chip to top edge of front cover. Signed and inscribed by the author. Very good. 190pp. Introduction, play, and nine stories. Signed and inscribed by the author.

Dunn & Powell Books, October 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-very good/Very Good. First edition. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering. Inscribed 'to Arthur hope you enjoy this writing' and signed by author.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.