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Name: The Chinese Nail Murders

Author: Robert van Gulik
Year: 1961
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Popularity: 1.6
Genres/categories: Mystery, Historical fiction, Detective
Culture: China

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ISBN:
9780718133047
0718133048
A.D. 676

In the fifth 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.
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.
Here are some other books from this series:
The Chinese Gold Murders
First published 1959
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, Pop Rating:1.6/10
The Phantom of the Temple
First published 1966
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, Pop Rating:1.4/10
Necklace and Calabash
First published 1967
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, Pop Rating:1.4/10
The Emperor's Pearl
First published 1963
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, Pop Rating:1.4/10
The Lacquer Screen
First published 1962
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, Pop Rating:1.5/10
The Haunted Monastery
First published 1961
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, Pop Rating:1.3/10
The Red Pavilion
First published 1961
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, Pop Rating:1.4/10
Judge Dee at Work
First published 1967
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, Pop Rating:1.5/10
The Chinese Bell Murders
First published 1958
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, Pop Rating:1.7/10
The Chinese Lake Murders
First published 1960
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, Pop Rating:1.5/10
The Chinese Maze Murders
First published 1951
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, Pop Rating:1.5/10

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