Murder in Canton: A Judge Dee Mystery

Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's...
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Author: Robert Van Gulik
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Murder in Canton: A Judge Dee Mystery by Van Gulik, Robert

Murder in Canton: A Judge Dee Mystery

$20.00

Murder in Canton: A Judge Dee Mystery

$20.00
Author: Robert Van Gulik
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.

Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots.

Murder in Canton takes place in the year 680, as Judge Dee, recently promoted to lord chief justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor. With the help of his trusted lieutenants Chiao Tai and Tao Gan, and that of a clever blind girl who collects crickets, Dee solves a complex puzzle of political intrigue and murder through the three separate subplots the vanished censor, the Smaragdine dancer, and the Golden Bell.

An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.

Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780226848747


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/13/1993

About the Author
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.

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