Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story
Autor Robert van Guliken Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 dec 1992
A fiendishly clever puzzle mystery starring the beloved detective Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes
Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career.
Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226848709
ISBN-10: 0226848701
Pagini: 152
Ilustrații: 10 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226848701
Pagini: 152
Ilustrații: 10 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
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Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
Illustrations
The captain shows Judge Dee a map
The Third Princess grants an audience
The second meeting with Master Gourd
The judge catches a perch
The innkeeper tells Mr. Lang about a letter
Judge Dee scrubs his boot with unnecessary vigour
The Chief Eunuch shows Judge Dee a rare orchid
The last meeting with Master Gourd
The captain shows Judge Dee a map
The Third Princess grants an audience
The second meeting with Master Gourd
The judge catches a perch
The innkeeper tells Mr. Lang about a letter
Judge Dee scrubs his boot with unnecessary vigour
The Chief Eunuch shows Judge Dee a rare orchid
The last meeting with Master Gourd
Recenzii
"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."
“The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik’s skilled hands, comes vividly alive again.”
“Entertaining, instructive and oddly impressive. Judge Dee, the officers of his tribunal and the people with whom he and they are concerned are interesting folk, and the world of crime, mystery, violence, lust, corruption and ceremony in which they move is formidably picturesque.”