The  willow pattern
Subtitle: a Judge Dee mystery
By: by Robert van Gulik
Edition: University of Chicago Press ed.
Series: Judge Dee mystery
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780226848754
Subjects: Di, Renjie, 629-700 -- Fiction; Judges -- Fiction; China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague- and drought-ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion. In The Willow Pattern, the illustrious judge uses his trademark expertise to unravel the mysteries of the nobleman, a shattered vase, and a dead bondmaid. Along the way he encounters a woman who fights with loaded sleeves, a nearly drowned courtesan, and an elaborate trap set for a murderer.