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The Chinese maze murders : a Chinese detective story suggested by three original ancient Chinese plots / by Robert Van Gulik ; with nineteen plates drawn by the author in Chinese style.
Van Pelt Library PR9130.9.G8 C54 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Di, Renjie, 629-700--Fiction.
- Di, Renjie.
- Di, Renjie, 629-700.
- Judges--China--Fiction.
- Judges.
- China.
- Genre:
- Mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Judge Dee is lured into the heart of the Governor's garden maze to solve three interwoven mysteries: "The Case of the Murder in the Sealed Room," "The Case of the Hidden Testament," and "The Case of the Girl with the Severed Head." 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 popular detective novels that appeared in the seventeenth century.
- Notes:
- "A Judge Dee mystery."
- ISBN:
- 0226848787
- OCLC:
- 36225342
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