The Red Pavilion: A Chinese Detective Story (A Judge Dee Mystery) (Scribner Crime Classics)
A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.