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The Emperor's Pearl: A Judge Dee Mystery
Paperback
Series: Judge Dee Mystery Series
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ISBN10: 0226848728
ISBN13: 9780226848723
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 10 2008
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780226848723
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 10 2008
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
A fiendishly clever mystery that can only be unraveled by the unflappable Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes The latest puzzling mystery facing Jude Dee 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 public avenger--steps in to investigate the murders and return order to the Tang Dynasty.
In The Emperor's Pearl, the judge discovers that these two deaths are connected by an ancient tragedy involving a near-legendary treasure stolen from the Imperial Harem one hundred years earlier. The terrifying figure of the White Lady, a river goddess enshrined on a bloodstained altar, looms in the background of the investigation. Clues are few and elusive, but under the expert hand of Robert van Gulik, this mythic jigsaw puzzle assembles itself into a taut mystery.
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