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Robert Hans Van Gulik
Full Series List in Order
A Judge Dee Mystery
1 - Chinese Bell Murders (1958)2 - The Chinese Gold Murders (1959)
3 - The Chinese Lake Murders (1960)
4 - The Haunted Monastery (1961)
5 - The Chinese Nail Murders (1961)
6 - The Lacquer Screen (1962)
7 - The Emperor's Pearl (1963)
8 - New Year's Eve in Lan-Fang (1964)
9 - The Willow Pattern (1965)
10 - Monkey and the Tiger (1965)
11 - Murder in Canton (1966)
12 - Phantom of the Temple (1966)
13 - Necklace and Calabash (1967)
14 - Judge Dee at Work (1967)
15 - The Red Tape Murder (1967)
16 - The Red Pavilion (1968)
17 - Poets and Murder (1968)
The Chinese Maze Murders (Mar-2007)
Book List in Order: 19 titles
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Chinese Bell Murders
- 1958
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Imperial China, T'ang dynasty, seventh century A.D. -- home of Judge Dee, imperial magistrate and detective. A near mythic figure in the pre-Communist Chinese consciousness, Judge Dee distinguished himself as tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and pub...
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The Chinese Gold Murders
- 1959
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A series of bizarre and intriguing murders greet young Judge Dee when he accepts the post of magistrate of Penglai, a port city on the northeast coast of Shantung Province in seventh-century Imperial China...
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The Chinese Lake Murders
- 1960
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In the third installment of Robert Van Gulik's classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for him. Set in 666 A.D., in the hidden city o...
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The Chinese Nail Murders
- 1961
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Imperial China, T'ang dynasty, seventh century A.D. -- home of Judge Dee, imperial magistrate and detective. A near mythic figure in the pre-Communist Chinese consciousness, Judge Dee distinguished himself as tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and pub...
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The Haunted Monastery
- 1961
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Judge Dee and his entourage, seeking refuge from a mountain storm, become trapped in a Taoist monastery, where the Abbott Jade mysteriously dies after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge calls it ...
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The Lacquer Screen
- 1962
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Judge Dee and his lieutenant, Chiao Tai, establish themselves incognito among the gangsters and rogues that inhabit the underworld of Wei- ping to reveal the ugly secret hidden in the four exquisite panels of the Lacquer Screen. This baffling case, i...
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The Emperor's Pearl
- 1963
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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 p...
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Monkey and the Tiger
- 1965
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The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, “The Morning of the Monkey” and “The Night of the Tiger.” In the first, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee’s official residence, leading the judge to discover a stra...
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The Willow Pattern
- 1965
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Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague- and drought-ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansi...
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Murder in Canton
- 1966
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Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accura...
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Phantom of the Temple
- 1966
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Judge Dee presided over his imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near mythic figure in China, he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his explo...
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Judge Dee at Work
- 1967
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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 pavi...
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Necklace and Calabash
- 1967
- / Historical Mystery
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Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accura...
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Poets and Murder
- 1968
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Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath the placid surface of academic life. A mild-mannered student is rumored to have been slain by a fox-de...
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The Red Pavilion
- 1968
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A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the pervers...
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The Chinese Maze Murders
- Mar-2007
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Judge Dee is lured into the heart of the Governor's garden maze to solve three interwoven mysteries: "The Case of the Murder in the Sealed Room," "The Case of the Hidden Testament," and "The Case of the Girl with the Severed Head."...
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