Title: The Monkey and the Tiger
Subtitle: Two Chinese Detective Stories
First published: 1965
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Judges, China in fiction, Judges in fiction, History, Di, Renjie, in fiction, English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Dee jen-djieh (fictitious character), fiction, China, fiction, Fiction, historical, Dee Jen-Djieh (Fictitious character)
Places: China
People: Renjie Di (629-700)
Time periods: Tang dynasty, 618-907