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  • Dee Goong An: Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    This book, written in the eighteenth century by a person well versed in the Chinese legal code, chronicles three of Judge Dee's most celebrated cases, interwoven to form a novel. A double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, an unsolved murder in a small town under Judge Dee's jurisdiction—these are the crimes. They take Judge Dee up and down the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Haunted Monastery

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    "The magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in the select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesJudge Dee and his entourage, seeking refuge from a mountain storm, become trapped in a Taoist monastery, where the Abbott Jade mysteriously dies after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chinese Bell Murders

    by Robert Van Gulik ...
    Series Book 3 - Judge Dee
    The Chinese Bell Murders is a gong'an historical mystery novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking, the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.This book was originally written by Robert van Gulik sometime between 1953 and 1956. ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Murder Cases Solved (Dee Goong An)

    by Robert Van Gulik ...
    Series Book 1 - Judge Dee
    This book, written in the eighteenth century by a person well versed in the Chinese legal code, chronicles three of Judge Dee's most celebrated cases, interwoven to form a novel. A double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, an unsolved murder in a small town under Judge Dee's jurisdiction—these are the crimes. They take Judge Dee up and down the ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poets and Murder

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    Judge Dee, master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath academia.A mild-mannered student is rumored to have been slain by a fox-demon, while a young dancer meets her death as she dresses to perform for the magistrate's illustrious dinner guests—an obese Zen monk revered for his calligraphy, a beautiful poetess ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lacquer Screen

    by Robert Van Gulik ...
    Series Book 9 - Judge Dee
    In 663, Judge Dee is the young magistrate in the fictional Chinese town of Peng-lai. On a visit to a senior magistrate Teng in Wei-ping, he is shown a beautiful lacquer screen which is mysteriously altered to show a murder scene instead of a love scene. With the senior magistrate Teng convinced he is going insane, a wealthy banker in town appears to kill himself, though it might be murder. Judge ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Necklace and Calabash

    by Robert Van Gulik ...
    Series Book 17 - Judge Dee
    Judge Dee's fishing vacation plans are suddenly shattered when the inn cashier is found slain in a river. When he is summoned to the Emperor's palace to find the princess's stolen pearl necklace, he wonders: could the theft be connected to the cashier's death? And what of Master Gourd and the sinister Lang Liu? Only the master detective of ancient China can come to grips with the tangled mystery ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lacquer Screen

    A Judge Dee Mystery

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    "One of the most satisfyingly devious of the Judge Dee novels, with unusual historical richness in its portrayal of the China of the T'ang dynasty." — The New York Times Book ReviewEarly in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Red Pavilion

    by Robert Van Gulik ...
    Series Book 7 - Judge Dee
    Judge Dee, the Magistrate of Poo-yang, has an unexpected meeting with the most powerful and famous courtesan on Paradise Island, Autumn Moon. A man who was well known to be studying to pass the Imperial exams dies, was it suicide or was he murdered? ... Read more

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  • The Emperor's Pearl

    by Robert Van Gulik ...
    Series Book 10 - Judge Dee
    Judge Dee, magistrate of Poo-yang a flourishing walled city on the Grand Canal, is attending the Dragon Boat races accompanied by his three ladies aboard his own official barge. He is mildly annoyed by the intrusions of assorted callers and the loss of a blank domino (he and his ladies are keen players). He is more than annoyed when the sad, sudden death of a young student crewing one of the boats ... Read more

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  • The Phantom of the Temple

    by Robert Van Gulik ...
    Series Book 15 - Judge Dee
    Judge Dee, a magistrate in the fictional Lan-fang district has a problem: a mysterious phantom is haunting a Buddhist temple. In addition, some 20 bars of gold have gone missing, not to mention the merchant's beautiful daughter. When a body is discovered without a head, Judge Dee must quickly solve the case. ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Chinese Gold Murders

    by Robert Van Gulik ...
    Series Book 5 - Judge Dee
    The Chinese Gold Murders takes us back to the beginning of Judge Dee’s career when, thirty-three years of age, he had been appointed to his first post in the provinces, viz. that of magistrate of Peng-lai, a port city on the northeast coast of Shantung Province.Judge Dee must look into the murder of his predecessor. His job is complicated by the simultaneous disappearance of his chief clerk and ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus