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The Chinese lake murders : three cases solved by judge Dee by Robert Hans van Gulik is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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**A.D. 666***The Chinese Lake Murders* describes how Judge Dee solves three difficult cases in A.D. 666, shortly after he has been appointed magistrate of Han-yuan."[Robert van Gulik] deftly interweaves three criminal cases involving exotic yet universally recognizable characters, then has his Judge Dee provide a surprising yet most plausible solution."--*New York Times Book Review*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.
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- Author
- Robert Hans van Gulik
- Publisher
- Time Warner Paperbacks
- Published
- 1960
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780747401742
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical
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