Chinese Nail Murders

Name: Chinese Nail Murders
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ISBN: 9780226848631

ISBN-10: 0226848639

ISBN-13: 9780226848631

Edition: 1977

Authors: Robert van Gulik, Donald F. Lach

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Judge Dee and his four helpers solve the murders of an honored merchant, a kindly boxing master, and a paper merchant's wife, whose corpse has no head. They succeed in spite of strong pressure on Judge Dee from higher-ups to bring his investigation, which has temporarily generated unrest among the populace, rapidly to an end or face dismissal and serious punishment. The case of the headless corpse is based on a thirteenth-century Chinese casebook; the nail murder, one of the most famous motifs in Chinese crime literature, is first described in the same text. "So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."--New York Times …

Book details

List price: $9.00
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Robert van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. His many works include sixteen Judge Dee mysteries, a study of the gibbon in China, and two books on the Chinese lute.



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