Murder in Canton: A Judge Dee Mystery Robert van Gulik
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

You'll be much happier Unless you all illiterate little fuck wagons. In order to teach us the laws and rules of the Chinese people at the time of the Tang Dynasty, we had to read a book called Judge Dee and the Chinese Nail Murders. Van Gulik's novels are very good historical mysteries. It was a fascinating story all about the gruff (and the actually quite . Permalink Reply by pr on December 31, 2008 at 3:05am. Behind the garden walls of the House of .. I'd go with "Hard Rain" among Janwillem van de Wetering's books. €At a time of mystery and crueltyin an ancient land of breathtaking beauty and exotic surprisea courageous woman triumphs over her world's ultimate tragedy. I've always like MURDER IN CANTON best. There are still a few of Robert van Gulik's mysteries about the celebrated 7th century Chinese Judge Dee Gong An that I haven't read. Instead pick up some of the Judge Dee books, like Murder in Canton (not Compton), the Chinese Bell Murders, or The Necklace and the Goddamn Calabash. And why not try "Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee," the eighteenth-century Chinese story translated by Robert van Gulik, and compare it with one of Van Gulik's original Judge Dee stories?