Poets and Murder - Couverture souple

Van Gulik, Robert Hans

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 068416180X ISBN 13 : 9780684161808

Editeur : Macmillan USA, 1979

Synopsis

Book by van Gulik Robert

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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-demon, while a young dancer meets her death as she dresses to perform for the magistrate's illustrious dinner guests—an obese Zen monk revered for his calligraphy, a beautiful poetess accused of murder, and the past president of the imperial academy. To connect the present crimes with betrayals and adulteries from decades past, the clever judge must visit a high-class brothel and the haunted shrine of the Black Fox. From the moment the young scholar is found dead on the eve of the Autumn Festival, the pace never lets up.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Robert van Gulik (1910-67), a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture, drew his plots and literary conventions from the popular detective novels that appeared in seventeenth-century China.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan USA
• Date d'édition: 1979
• ISBN 10: 068416180X
• ISBN 13: 9780684161808
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192