- Fiction, Judges, History, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
Soon after taking up his first magisterial post in the godforsaken district of Peng-lai, Judge Dee must look into the murder of his predecessor.
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Classical in form, cool, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Robert van Gulik
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 221
- Publisher
- NXB Văn học, Lythway Press Ltd., M. Joseph
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Chinese, vie, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780226848648
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About Robert van Gulik · 1910–1967
Dutch orientalist, diplomat and writer
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