The monkey and the tiger
Subtitle: two Chinese detective stories
By: by Robert van Gulik ; with eight illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style.
Edition: University of Chicago Press ed.
Series: Judge Dee mysteries
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Di, Renjie, 629-700 -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, English; Judges -- Fiction; China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In the first [story], a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee's official residence, leading the Judge to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woods. In the second, Dee is traveling to the imperial capital to assume his new position when he is separated from his escort by a flood and marooned in a large country house surrounded by fierce bandits"--P. [4] of cover.