The Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee Mystery Series)

New
Illustrated
1994
$14.82

A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world of flowers and willows that thrives on prostitution.

Synopsis

A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world of flowers and willows that thrives on prostitution.

$14.82

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 186
Edition: New edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01 Jan 1994
ISBN 10: 0226848736
ISBN 13: 9780226848730

Author Bio

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.