The Emperor's Pearl

Informationen zum Autor Robert van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. His many works include sixteen Judge Dee mysteries, a study of the gibbon in China, and two books on the Chinese lute. Klappentext The time is 699 A.D.; the place is Poo-yang. Here Judge Dee, imperial magistrate, must investigate two deaths: the collapse of a young drummer in the annual dragon-boat race and the murder of a woman in a deserted country estate. The mystery involves the cruel River Goddess, and the legendary Emperor's Pearl, as well as a wealthy merchant's lovely, mute, mad wife. Zusammenfassung On the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in AD 699 a drummer in the leading boat collapses! and the body of a woman turns up in a country mansion. Judge Dee steps in to investigate the murders. He discovers that these two deaths are connected by an ancient tragedy involving a treasure stolen from the Imperial Harem one hundred years earlier.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Hans Van Gulik, Robert van Gulik, Van Gulik, Robert Van Gulik
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1994
• EAN: 9780226848723
• ISBN: 978-0-226-84872-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 119 mm x 178 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Judge Dee Mystery Series; Judge Dee Mystery Series
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense