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Name: Judge Dee at Work
Full title: Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories
Author: Robert van Gulik
Year: 1967
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Popularity: 1.5
Genres/categories: Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction, Crime
Culture: China

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ISBN:
9780226848662
9780434825516
0226848663
0434825514
A.D. 663-670

The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T'ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion, the cases here are among the most memorable in the Judge Dee series.
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 Chinese Nail Murders
First published 1961
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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
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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