num_pages: 37
description: Judge DeeConfucian Imperial magistrate inquisitor and public avenger based on a famous statesmanwas Dutch diplomat and Chinese cultural historian Robert van Guliks (191067) lasting invention. A welcome addition to the elite canon of fictional detectives the Judge steps in to investigate homicide theft and treason and restores order to the golden age of the Tang Dynasty. In Murder in Ancient Chinas first story we watch as Judge Dee attempts to solve the mystery of an elderly poet murdered by moonlight in his garden pavilion; in the second set on the eve of the Chinese New Year the Judge makes two rare mistakeswill peril result?
language: English
title: Murder in Ancient China
publisher: University of Chicago Press