Poets and Murder
Subtitle: A Judge Dee Mystery (Gulik, Robert Hans Van, Judge Dee Mystery.)
Series: Judge Dee (16)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780226848761
Subjects: Crime & mystery; 20th Century English Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; Mystery & Detective - General; Di, Renjie; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; 629-700; China; Di, Renjie,; History; Judges; Tang dynasty, 618-907
First sentence: The obese monk, sitting cross-legged on a corner of the broad bench, silently regarded his visitor with unblinking eyes.
Description: "Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly tranquil landscape of academic life. A student has been murdered; a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death; and further mysteries lie in the shadows of the Shrine of the Black Fox"--Page 4 of cover.