Jade Dragon Mountain
By: Elsa Hart
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print historical fiction; Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9781410486707
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Librarians; Crimes against; Fiction; Jesuits; Large type books; History
Description: "On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du is an imperial librarian in exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants, all come for the spectacle of an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself. And when a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered, Li Du suspects this was no random killing." -- cover.