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Name: The Lacquer Screen
Author: Robert van Gulik
Year: 1962
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Popularity: 1.5
Genres/categories: Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction
Culture: China

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ISBN:
9780958127424
9789999968492
0958127425
999996849X
A.D. 663

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 devious of the Judge Dee novels, with unusual historical richness in its portrayal of the China of the T'ang dynasty."-—New York Times Book Review

"So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."-—New York Times
About the author:
Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.
This book is part of the "Judge Dee" series.
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The Phantom of the Temple
First published 1966
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Necklace and Calabash
First published 1967
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The Emperor's Pearl
First published 1963
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The Haunted Monastery
First published 1961
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The Red Pavilion
First published 1961
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First published 1967
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The Chinese Bell Murders
First published 1958
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The Chinese Lake Murders
First published 1960
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The Chinese Maze Murders
First published 1951
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