Review: Short and crisp story telling.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
Probably the most interesting thing about reading Van Gulik's stories is getting the feeling of what it might have been like to live in the 600s in China.  The detective work relies on clues that would not be clear to me, since I don't understand what was common 1400 years ago, but the understanding of life in the ancient world that the clues represent are interesting.