num_pages: 255
description: Once again World Fantasy Award-winner Barry Hughart blends folklore and fantasy to create a work of enchantment set in an ancient China that never was…but should have been. Master Li and Number Ten Ox—heroes of Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone—return to solve the mystery of how and why respected mandarins are being mysteriously murdered. Unbelievably, the only suspects appear to be mythical demons…
language: English
title: Eight Skilled Gentlemen
titlecomplete: Eight Skilled Gentlemen (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #3)
genres: Asia, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, China, Adventure, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 2080
series: The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel
publisher: Foundation/Doubleday