num_pages: 220
description: A.D. 676In the fifth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow - a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels, the disappearance of a girl in love, and the fiendish murder involving the nude, headless body of a woman. And even more curious, the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period, the Seven Board.
language: English
title: The Chinese Nail Murders
titlecomplete: The Chinese Nail Murders
genres: Historical, Crime, Mystery, Novels, Asia, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Detective, China
ratings_count: 1271
series: Judge Dee (Chronological order), Judge Dee 
publisher: University Of Chicago Press