MURDER IN CANTON: A Judge Dee Mystery
by van Gulik, Robert
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- Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0226848744
- ISBN 13
- 9780226848747
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 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.
Synopsis
Murder in Canton is a detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700. The book contains twelve illustrations and a map of Canton by the author.
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- Alta-Glamour Inc. (US)
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- 98316
- Title
- MURDER IN CANTON
- Author
- van Gulik, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226848744
- ISBN 13
- 9780226848747
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1997
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