The emperor's pearl
a Judge Dee mystery
University of Chicago Press ed.
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Author
Publication
1994 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
46,000 words, Guess
Page Count
184 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveemperorspearljud00robe
- ISBN-100226848728
- ISBN-139780226848723
- LibraryThing58094
- Library of Congress Control Number93050923
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780226848723
- Open LibraryOL1437914M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR9130.9.G8 E63 1994
- LCCPR9130.9.G8E63 1994
Description
It all 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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- Fiction
Series Statement
- Judge Dee mystery
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