The Chinese Nail Murders by Robert van Gulik

The Chinese Nail Murders

Judge Dee Mysteries #5

Robert van Gulik with Donald F. Lach (Contributor)

fiction crime historical mystery mysterious fast-paced

220 pages | first published 1961

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A.D. 676In the fifth installment of 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 ancien...
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