Author: Robert van Gulik
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0226849074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 AngelesTimes “The title of this book and the book itself have much in common. Each is a jewel, a rare and precious find.”—AtlantaTimes
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780446754521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert van Gulik
Publisher:
Published: 1963-12
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9789971490621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Van, Gent
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
Published: 1974-05-12
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780446754521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: MONICA. DOMINGUEZ TORRES
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 027109723X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Abbe Bayle
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-10-19
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 3368126873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.