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A Judge Dee Mystery

by Robert Van Gulik
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press, November of 2010 ‧
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Judge Dee presided over his imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near mythic figure in China, he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his exploits were celebrated in Chinese folklore, and later immortalized by Robert van Gulik in his electrifying mysteries.

In The Phantom of the Temple, three separate puzzles—the disappearance of a wealthy merchant''s daughter, twenty missing bars of gold, and a decapitated corpse—are pieced together by the clever judge to solve three murders and one complex, gruesome plot.
 
"Judge Dee belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes. I assure you it is a compliment not given frivolously."—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

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.

Phantom Of The Temple

A Judge Dee Mystery

by Robert Van Gulik

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ISBN: 9780226848976
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: November of 2010
Language: English
Format: eBook
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eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
EAN: 9780226848976
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Van Gulik

Robert Van Gulik nasceu na Holanda em 1910.
Depois de ter estudado direito e política em Leyden e Utreque, iniciou uma carreira diplomática que o faria permanecer no Oriente durante quase toda a vida.
Erudito e poliglota (falava holandês, inglês, japonês, malaio, javanês, latim e grego, mas também chinês e russo), o seu nome está associado a importantes estudos sobre a cultura chinesa. Foi em 1948, no Japão, que traduziu um romance policial chinês, o Dee Gong Na ou Casos Resolvidos pelo Juiz Dee. Inspirado nesta e noutras antigas narrativas chinesas, Van Gulik escreveu dezassete histórias policiais fictícias tendo como personagem principal o juiz Dee, que dão a conhecer ao leitor ocidental muitos aspectos da vida social da China antiga.

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