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Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly tranquil landscape of academic life. A student has been murdered; a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death; and further mysteries lie in the shadows of the Shrine of the Black Fox. “The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik’s skilled hands, comes vividly alive again.” —Allen J. Hubin, New York Times Book Review “If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee, I envy you that initial pleasure …the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yan belongs in that select group headed by Sherlock Holmes.” —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times “Pleasing as a cup of jasmine tea.” —Parade of Books Robert van Gulik (1910-67), a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture, drew his plots from the popular detective novels that appeared in seventeenth-century China.
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Robert van Gulik (1910 – 67), a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture, drew his plots and literary conventions from the popular detective novels that appeared in seventeenth-century China.
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