The Chinese Nail Murders

The Chinese Nail Murders
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1977-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780226848631

Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.

The Chinese Nail Murders

The Chinese Nail Murders
Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0060751398

In the fourth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow -- a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels, the disappearance of a girl in love, and the fiendish murder involving the nude, headless body of a woman. And even more curious, the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period, the Seven Board. "A delight to the connoisseur" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Chinese Nail Murders was first published in the 1950s. Timeless and exotic, it is now reissued by Perennial and includes charming illustrations and an epilogue that details the origins of each case and how the author discovered them.

The Chinese Lake Murders

The Chinese Lake Murders
Author: Robert Van Gulik
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0060751401

In the third installment of Robert Van Gulik's classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for him. Set in 666 A.D., in the hidden city of Han-yuan, sixty miles from the imperial capital of ancient China, Dee is sent to investigate a case of embezzlement of government funds. But things are about to get more complicated for the great detective. Just before he is about to take leave of Han-yuan, the popular courtesan Almond Blossom disappears, and then a bride who dies on her wedding night also disappears from her coffin -- her body replaced with that of a murdered man. To make matters worse, Judge Dee is confronted with the dangerous sect called the White Lotus.

The Chinese Nail Murders

The Chinese Nail Murders
Author: Robert H. Van Gulik
Publisher: Orbit Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1990
Genre: China
ISBN: 9780747401766

The last of the Judge Dee series. Judge Dee is a 7th century magistrate/detective who always has three crimes to solve. In the first, a headless body is found; in the second, a poisoning occurs; and finally a cotton-maker is killed.

The Chinese Gold Murders

The Chinese Gold Murders
Author: Robert Hans Van Gulik
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1979
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780226848648

A series of bizarre and intriguing murders greet young Judge Dee when he accepts the post of magistrate of Peng-lai, a port city on the northeast coast of Shantung Province in seventh-century Imperial China

The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders

The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486235025

In 'The Haunted Monastery', Judge Dee and his wives seek refuge from a violent mountain storm and are plunged into a bizarre series of interrelated crimes. Three women have been murdered in the monastery; Dee has seen something impossible, perhaps supernatural, and inexplicable events flash forth in the dark tangle of corridors and the Taoist Hell - a hall filled with statuary showing realistically the torments of Hell.