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The lacquer screen : a Chinese detective story / by Robert van Gulik.
Early 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 losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate."One of the most satisfyingly deviou.
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- ISBN: 9780226849003 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0226849007 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations.
- Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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Formatted Contents Note: | Dramatis Personae; Illustrations; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Chapter X; Chapter XI; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII; Chapter XIV; Chapter XV; Chapter XVI; Chapter XVII; Chapter XVIII; Postscript. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Di, Renjie, 629-700 > Fiction. China > History > Tang dynasty, 618-907 > Fiction. Judges > Fiction. FICTION > Mystery & Detective > Historical. |
Genre: | Literature. Fiction. Electronic books. Mystery fiction. Historical fiction. |