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Book Synopsis The Chinese Nail Murders by : Robert Hans van Gulik
Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1977-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Dee and his helpers investigate a series of murders despite pressure to solve them quickly.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Nail Murders by : Robert Van Gulik
Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Van Gulik and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow -- a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels, the disappearance of a girl in love, and the fiendish murder involving the nude, headless body of a woman. And even more curious, the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period, the Seven Board. "A delight to the connoisseur" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Chinese Nail Murders was first published in the 1950s. Timeless and exotic, it is now reissued by Perennial and includes charming illustrations and an epilogue that details the origins of each case and how the author discovered them.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Nail Murders by : Robert H. Van Gulik
Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert H. Van Gulik and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last of the Judge Dee series. Judge Dee is a 7th century magistrate/detective who always has three crimes to solve. In the first, a headless body is found; in the second, a poisoning occurs; and finally a cotton-maker is killed.
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Book Synopsis The Chinese Nail Murders by : Robert Van Gulik
Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chinese Lake Murders by : Robert Van Gulik
Download or read book The Chinese Lake Murders written by Robert Van Gulik and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third installment of Robert Van Gulik's classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for him. Set in 666 A.D., in the hidden city of Han-yuan, sixty miles from the imperial capital of ancient China, Dee is sent to investigate a case of embezzlement of government funds. But things are about to get more complicated for the great detective. Just before he is about to take leave of Han-yuan, the popular courtesan Almond Blossom disappears, and then a bride who dies on her wedding night also disappears from her coffin -- her body replaced with that of a murdered man. To make matters worse, Judge Dee is confronted with the dangerous sect called the White Lotus.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Nail Murders by : Robert Hans van Gulik
Download or read book The Chinese Nail Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Necklace and Calabash by : Robert van Gulik
Download or read book Necklace and Calabash written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots. Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career. An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.
Book Synopsis The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders by : Robert Hans van Gulik
Download or read book The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Haunted Monastery', Judge Dee and his wives seek refuge from a violent mountain storm and are plunged into a bizarre series of interrelated crimes. Three women have been murdered in the monastery; Dee has seen something impossible, perhaps supernatural, and inexplicable events flash forth in the dark tangle of corridors and the Taoist Hell - a hall filled with statuary showing realistically the torments of Hell.
Book Synopsis Poets and Murder by : Robert van Gulik
Download or read book Poets and Murder written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly tranquil landscape of academic life. A student has been murdered; a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death; and further mysteries lie in the shadows of the Shrine of the Black Fox.
Book Synopsis Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by : Robert Hans van Gulik
Download or read book Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of a celebrated seventh-century Chinese magistrate's investigation of a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and a murder in a small town
Book Synopsis The Emperor's Pearl by : Robert van Gulik
Download or read book The Emperor's Pearl written by Robert van Gulik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion. There, Judge Dee—tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—steps in to investigate the murders and return order to the Tang Dynasty. In The Emperor’s Pearl, the judge discovers that these two deaths are connected by an ancient tragedy involving a near-legendary treasure stolen from the Imperial Harem one hundred years earlier. The terrifying figure of the White Lady, a river goddess enshrined on a bloodstained altar, looms in the background of the investigation. Clues are few and elusive, but under the expert hand of Robert van Gulik, this mythic jigsaw puzzle assembles itself into a taut mystery. “If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee and his faithful Sgt. Hoong, I envy you that initial pleasure which comes from the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes.”—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times “The title of this book and the book itself have much in common. Each is a jewel, a rare and precious find.”—Atlanta Times
Book Synopsis Judge Dee at Work by : Robert van Gulik
Download or read book Judge Dee at Work written by Robert van Gulik and published by Calypso Press Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven foul crimes; seven cunning murderers brought to justice by the master-detective of China's glorious T'ang Empire. (And one innocent person exonerated). 'A rich new vein of detective fiction is worked by Mr van Gulik . . . Entertaining, instructive and impressive'.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Gold Murders by : Robert Hans van Gulik
Download or read book The Chinese Gold Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the new bride of a wealthy shipowner.
Meanwhile, a tiger is terrorizing the district, the ghost of the murdered magistrate stalks the tribunal, a prostitute has a secret message for Dee, and the body of a murdered monk is discovered in the wrong grave. In the end the judge with his deft powers of deduction, uncovers the one cause for all of these seemingly unrelated events.
Book Synopsis Dee Goong an by : Robert Hans van Gulik
Download or read book Dee Goong an written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sleeping Murder by : Agatha Christie
Download or read book Sleeping Murder written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.
Book Synopsis The Machine Murders by : C. J. Abazis
Download or read book The Machine Murders written by C. J. Abazis and published by Publisto Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of murders in the party island of Mykonos rocks the Web. A data scientist has less than a week to become a cop. How many social posts would it take to encourage those who have "dark personality traits" to commit a particularly horrific type of serial murders? Scattered randomly around the world - would anyone notice? Welcome to THE MACHINE MURDERS. A series of gruesomely mutilated victims washes up in a Greek island. When the "buoy murders" become a social media sensation, Manos Manu, a data scientist-turned-Interpol cop realizes social influence means different things to different people; including serial killers. For more information about the book and its author, visit www.themachinemurders.com. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Excerpt. (c) Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. He thought all waters must ultimately reveal their identity. The cold blue of Cape Cod is nothing like the Indian Ocean's pastels. A Californian could say the same of his steel-grey Pacific, or a Thai contemplating the turquoise Gulf of Thailand. Manos Manu was dreaming of a machine learning system that could pinpoint a location given a single image through a virtually infinite dataset of ocean pics. Their colors and currents, the unmistakable hues of their depths, the breadth of the sun's rays on their surface, the water temperature, the kind of sand. A neural network would even classify the living organisms contained in each and every drop. Manos Manu was on holiday in Mykonos when the officer from the Cyclades Police precinct asked him to investigate a sunken corpse found in the waters of Ornos there. Manos instantly agreed, mostly to work on his plan. He now found himself on waters of his own origins, its pure, sparkling colors surging as if from a wellspring at the earth's core. His beloved Greece. The harbor boat sliced through the breezes with a tranquil, self-assured drone. "Captain Panagiotis here was Director at our local Authority for twenty years, way before I came," Officer Bellas was saying. Manos turned to the captain, who kept his eyes ahead and said nothing. On the opposite deck, an equally silent Coast Guard diver deftly arranged his gear. "His daughter Lena is a criminologist," continued the officer. This name got the captain's attention. He gave Manos a smile, sizing him up. "You're here for the conference too, eh?" he asked. Manos had seen a large poster at the airport boasting of the criminology symposium. Day one in Greece, and I'm already at a seaside crime scene. Tomorrow, a seaside criminology conference. No country for those with aversion to salt. "Uh, I'm on vacation." "Mr. Manu is from the States," explained the officer. "He's with Interpol." "Interpol in America?" asked the captain. "Interpol Singapore," Bellas answered again. "So, there's Interpol in Singapore..." the older man said, as if to himself. Manos cleared his throat. "Our Global Complex for Innovation is there." His Greek, learned mostly in New York, was halting but correct. The two natives looked at him, uncomprehending. "My division is based there," he said. Manos could see thoughts of pay grades and rank flit across their faces and then vanish. Coolly, the captain asked, "And Interpol sent you here?" "We were just getting acquainted, and I asked him to come take a look," said Bellas. Captain Panagiotis gave them a sharp look, then shrugged his shoulders. "Someone goes down every summer," he said. The officer was staring at the water. "This one's particular."
