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The Chinese nail murders : a Judge Dee detective story by Gulik, Robert van is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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version 4.0 -- Robert Van Gulik’s ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow -- a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels, the disappearance of a girl in love, and the fiendish murder involving the nude, headless body of a woman. And even more curious, the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period, the Seven Board.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Gulik, Robert van
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060751395
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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